Re: Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
DomA Send a noteboard - 26/04/2012 01:42:19 AM
Guess it depends on how long until the Ayyad and the rest of the world encounter each other
As I noted in the other post, the White Ajah has already deduced all this. It's more a matter of when they'll bring this back on the agenda rather than if they will. Given the relationships between Asha'man and Aes Sedai, it's also only a matter of 15 years or so before it's obvious to everyone that channelers together give birth to channelers.
Even during the middle-ages, horse and cattle breeders had worked out empirically how to cull out or fix recessive traits, long before anyone knew anything about genes. Breeders in WOT know this too, it's mentionned in the series; the Whites deduced correctly this would apply as well to the ability to channel.
Of course, Rand/LTT will shortly have 6 babies from two different wives on the way. It would take a little miracle for him not to let slip the kids will be channelers (not necessarily "on screen", in fact I'd be surprised the issue of genetics is raised again before the end... well, it's always possible Elayne/Rand or Rand/Aviendha will have a long conversation scene in need of filler material I guess).
Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
24/04/2012 08:48:40 PM
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24/04/2012 11:43:53 PM
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Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
25/04/2012 05:29:45 AM
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The hair...
25/04/2012 05:14:52 PM
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Yeah, that was bothering me too.
25/04/2012 07:12:31 PM
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Yup ... Suppose the Moridin body switch theory would explain the dark hair
26/04/2012 12:28:42 AM
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Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
25/04/2012 05:57:02 AM
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Yes, I wasn't claiming this was a plot hole or anything...
25/04/2012 06:06:53 AM
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Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
25/04/2012 11:15:09 AM
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Re: Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
25/04/2012 04:11:55 PM
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Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
26/04/2012 12:26:39 AM
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Re: Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
26/04/2012 01:42:19 AM
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I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 01:38:32 AM
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I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 01:39:05 AM
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Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 02:17:17 AM
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True, but the odds of Channelers having children with the ability are vastly higher
26/04/2012 10:48:00 AM
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But in that very revelation, Nynaeve claims that "mother following daughter was rare"
27/04/2012 03:24:21 AM
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Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 01:30:54 PM
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I believe there is a quote that the soul is only part of what determines the Channelers strength
27/04/2012 10:31:22 AM
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