Originally posted by Skinny Guinea@Oct 26 2005, 10:03 PM
Everything about our bodies are inherited from those who come before us. It's all a combination of what came before us, and the way it combines within us is what makes us unique. If any scientist has ever questioned this, then I'd like to know who.
I'm not saying that every son will have a penis the same size as his father's. I think most people get what I'm saying.
Yes, this is a somewhat unusual topic, by the way. It seems rather unnecessary in some ways. It's pretty obvious that it would have to do with heredity, because everything else does.
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Sorry, again I couldn't disagree more. At least we are on physical traits, so what you say has more validity than if we were talking about mental traits (if you think adult intelligence is the result of parental intelligence, then I'd just give up this discussion). Everything does not have to do with heredity. In one sense, we share a fast majority of identical genes not only with other animals, but with other humans. Necessary of course since we need a large number of proteins to function. So your argument basically has to do with the small number of genes that could possibly account for individual differences. These are often the genes that are most studied in gene-environment interaction studies (GxE), but they focus on mental traits and not physical traits. All I know is that in GxE studies, environment dominates. I think recognizing the genome's dependence on environmental cues, and the effects the environment itself has on phenotype, is more cautious than just saying "penis size is hereditary because everything else is" (which is blatantly not true).