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The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by dantheclamman to c/science

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[–] samus12345 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But sometimes a kid can look more like their mother, and that kid's kid can look more like their paternal grandfather. How would he explain that?

[–] kromem 5 points 9 months ago

That the kid's kid got more of the dad's seed in the "shifting lottery."

It's not like he's saying a kid that looks like the mother isn't getting any contribution from the father.

And while he's technically wrong in the idea that there's a disproportionate overall contribution from each parent, it is true that genes and traits responsible for physical appearance can be disproportionately passed on.