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On Fri, 7/31/15, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, July 31, 2015, 6:33 PM

 On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at
 05:21:19AM -0700, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
 > With TL15or14 avail it seems virtually
 impossible to me that such
 >
 characteristics aren't corrected well before birth or
 even
 > eliminated from the gene pool
 altogether but I suppose it's still
 >
 possible even if just barely...

 There's little reason to expect that his
 mother had access to TL15
 technology.  If I
 recall correctly, he didn't inherit that position
 himself, and most people don't have TL15
 medicine.

 Another problem
 is that genes for infertility are never simple
 dominant alleles, for the obvious reason. 
 Those are already self
 removing.  It would
 require a massive eugenics program on an
 interstellar scale to remove every allele that
 could ever give an
 increased risk of
 infertility, or combine with any others that do so
 together, and so on.  On top of that, most of
 the ones that remain in
 the population after
 millions of years of evolution are those that
 usually give benefits that outweigh the
 risk.

 On the smaller scale,
 genetic modification is likely one of those
 things that may disqualify or disfavour a
 descendant from succession
 in the
 nobility.
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IMO. after all the millenia & with a TL so much higher, all this has become as moot as a paleolithic man arguing that it'll be too difficult to artificially conceive at TL9.

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