Mystery of Ascia/Agia

Jeff Wilson · 21 Jan 2011, 07:23 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:23:14 -0600
Subject: (urth) Mystery of Ascia/Agia
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On 1/20/2011 5:17 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com
> <mailto:andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>> .Son of Witz wrote:
>>
>>> North Americans could very well be Asian by the time of the story.
>>
>> But each country has (allegedly) a natural type to which the people
>> living in it conform after twenty generations or so. So even if North
>> Americans are descended from people who now live in Asia, they
>> shouldn't look Asian.
>>
>
> Fair point.
> I don't know anything about that biological theory. Sounds very
> theoretical. I also wonder when that idea came into vogue. I don't
> expect/require Hard SF rules for this sort of thing, personally.

It is pointedly brought up within Sev's memoirs on one or two occasions. 
It's essentialy a restatment that among a population the traits most 
suited to their environment will come to dominate.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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