quirky wrote:
Xercies wrote:
I'm still 100% sure it is genetic it just would make a whole load of sense...nearly everyone in my family has traits of autism, even my "blood" brother has a mild form of asperges. And i was hearing from my mum about my grandma having these traits. So thts why I think its 100% genetic...
But then how would you explain people with autism whose family members don't have any traits? It's definitely partially genetic - but 100%?
Becuase family members don't have 100% identical genetic materials. Heard of "generation skipping" traits?
I have an ancestor the spitting image of myself - John Alden, the fellows name is... er, was.
Damned well indistiungishable to me - but not to my other family members.
By the laws of nature, genetics being a part of that, a person cannot replicate 100% of their genetic materials - that would be called cloning, and is in direct conflict to hereditary evolutionary characteristics of almost all known animals - save those wildly alien to ourselves (amoeba).
In other words: there will always be "flaws" in genetic exchange/interaction (reproduction). Mathematics explains the rest, in terms of probability and possibility for likely characteristics and traits to manifest in certain individuals according to specific genetic history and factors involved. What mathematician has that sort of time on their hands, of course, I don't want to know...
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Oh, well, fancy that! Isn't that neat, eh?