From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Jun 13 1999 - 09:46:42 MDT
> > At 11:42 AM 12/06/99 -0700, spike spikulated:
> >>One's l.q. is the average of your parents' l.q
> >>assuming natural causes, otherwise one's...
> > ...
> > stochastic impact of disease, all that.
> Timothy Bates wrote: Jokingly - how do you factor in stochastic
> phenomena?
I dont know. Have you suggestions? If a parent died in an accident
use their parents l.q.? If the now-curable disease death occured when
the parent is older than the average age at which their ancestors perished
I suppose you could estimate how long they would have lived. Obviously
this is not an exact science. One can only... spikulate. {8^D
The original question is: suppose I wish to raise a litter of pups.
The best gift I can give them is a set of genes that will predispose
them to long life. If I take a sperm donation from a 117 year old
man, there is much time for that DNA to have accumulated
errors. Ova would not be available from a woman much older
than about 50. So, how do we identify good genetic material? Assume
I care nothing about race, height, intelligence, etc. The goal is
to maximize the only thing we *know* for sure is good: long life.
How now, Dr. Bates? spike
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