“It is typically impossible for separate species to reproduce. According to scientific facts that were discovered after millions of years of experimentation,”
Hold on what? For one alphas and omegas are legit considered a separate species. But also millions of years??? In this universe have humans been around for millions of years? Or is it more metaphorical, as in millions of years of evolution?
(Also little fun info, some species can reproduce w other species. They just don’t because they live in different places etc. like baboons for example. Or the hybrids might also have lower fitness (have less babies). Like donkey+horse = mule, but mules are infertile)
This is actually kind of shown in the next part of that quote:
“reproduction can only occur between extraordinary alphas and ordinary females. The half-breeds of such unions are either dormant ordinary species who carry dominant traits or half breed extraordinary species with no reproductive function. If those offspring reproduce to make a third generation of mixed breeds, in very rare occasions, the third generation can manifest as extraordinary species with perfect phenotypes.”
The hybrids are either betas/ordinary (less favorable, since I think alphas and omegas are typically stronger and therefore more likely to survive and reproduce), or infertile alphas or omegas.
Btw, phenotype = physical traits (in case you don’t know)
Based on this, I guess being beta (ordinary) is dominant? But it seems a bit complicated and I need more info. And the above makes me think genes that only omegas can pass down are needed for alphas to be fertile (but then I wonder how the third gen can have fertile alphas … ugh. Maybe it requires nondisjunction(chromosomes not split correctly when eggs/sperm are being made). And maybe somehow betas pass down alleles that make offspring have reduced fertility? Maybe there’s a linked gene involved? (Genes that are next to each other, so they tend to be inherited together)
I tried to figure out a method of inheritance, but none I tried fit with the information presented. I also don’t think there’s enough info, and I’m not an evolutionary bio person, so there’s probably modes of inheritance I’m not thinking of. (Maybe it’s three gene loci…? Ugh.)
I know the true explanation is probably that the author probably knows little biology and is just making stuff up to fit the story. But I don’t care let me have fun.
But I’m still reading (this is from ch 39) , maybe more will be revealed later on. I’ll probably reassess everything if that happens
“It is typically impossible for separate species to reproduce. According to scientific facts that were discovered after millions of years of experimentation,”
Hold on what? For one alphas and omegas are legit considered a separate species. But also millions of years??? In this universe have humans been around for millions of years? Or is it more metaphorical, as in millions of years of evolution?
(Also little fun info, some species can reproduce w other species. They just don’t because they live in different places etc. like baboons for example. Or the hybrids might also have lower fitness (have less babies). Like donkey+horse = mule, but mules are infertile)
This is actually kind of shown in the next part of that quote:
“reproduction can only occur between extraordinary alphas and ordinary females. The half-breeds of such unions are either dormant ordinary species who carry dominant traits or half breed extraordinary species with no reproductive function. If those offspring reproduce to make a third generation of mixed breeds, in very rare occasions, the third generation can manifest as extraordinary species with perfect phenotypes.”
The hybrids are either betas/ordinary (less favorable, since I think alphas and omegas are typically stronger and therefore more likely to survive and reproduce), or infertile alphas or omegas.
Btw, phenotype = physical traits (in case you don’t know)
Based on this, I guess being beta (ordinary) is dominant? But it seems a bit complicated and I need more info. And the above makes me think genes that only omegas can pass down are needed for alphas to be fertile (but then I wonder how the third gen can have fertile alphas … ugh. Maybe it requires nondisjunction(chromosomes not split correctly when eggs/sperm are being made). And maybe somehow betas pass down alleles that make offspring have reduced fertility? Maybe there’s a linked gene involved? (Genes that are next to each other, so they tend to be inherited together)
I tried to figure out a method of inheritance, but none I tried fit with the information presented. I also don’t think there’s enough info, and I’m not an evolutionary bio person, so there’s probably modes of inheritance I’m not thinking of. (Maybe it’s three gene loci…? Ugh.)
I know the true explanation is probably that the author probably knows little biology and is just making stuff up to fit the story. But I don’t care let me have fun.
But I’m still reading (this is from ch 39) , maybe more will be revealed later on. I’ll probably reassess everything if that happens