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npwr··on The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
Not if it is recessive. Example with a recessive "gay gene": Both parent have one normal allele and one "gay" allele. The repartition of the offspring will be:

- 25% both normal alleles (normal phenotype) - 50% one normal allele (normal phenotype) - 25% both gay alleles (gay phenotype)

But homosexuality is not a gene. I believe that the [fetal androgen exposure theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_hormones_and_sexual_o...) is the one currently preferred.

npwr··on Why countries with 'loose', rule-breaking cultures have been hit harder by Covid
> these rules have curtailed individual liberty for the benefit of the whole group.

This is certainly varying over countries and debatable.

npwr··on How was your government today?
What is the purpose of this website?
npwr··on Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
On the contrary that would make the possibility that the great filter is the appearance of a cell very unlikely.

That leaves these possible obvious filters: single cell to multicellular life or planetary resources exhaustion.

npwr··on Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
> Besides clueless commentators on the Internet, who is suggesting depression is simply a matter of 'chemical imbalance'? If that were the case, it wouldn't be brought on by loneliness, and it wouldn't be treated with CBT and talking therapy.

Most of (all?) chemical depression treatments are based on the serotoninergic depression hypothesis that has never been verified. In the recent years more and more arguments come directly against this hypothesis. Yet SSRIs are still the first line of treatment for depressive patients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder#Path...

npwr··on Ask HN: Social Network for Engineers?
What risk would that be ?
npwr··on Create a knowledge graph without writing code
Their privacy policy is a ambiguous mess: https://kgbase.com/pages/terms#privacy

Nevermind, I'll program it myself.

npwr··on A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
What kinds of weapons do you foresee being feasible with this technology ?
npwr··on A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
Finally a tangible publication on the matter! I was astounded by Michael Levin's presentation at NeurIPS in 2018. I did not understand was no press outlet mentionned it.

This is a breakthrough discovery that will enable the creation of whole new classes of technology and medicine!

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