Daming 1805

Chapter 520 Natural selection, survival of the fittest

Of all the ships of the missions of the Thai and Western countries, the situation on board the French delegation seemed to be the most harmonious.

Because France is currently the most stable situation among the Thai and Western countries.

Coupled with the peace that has lasted for more than ten years, most of them, from ordinary officials to non-governmental scholars, have not considered the issue of war.

The topics of discussion on the French king's ship are more inclined to purely academic discussions, travel records and literary creation.

There is a group of French naturalists who are analyzing and verifying the forms and relationships of plants and animals around the world.

In this day and age of the world, the topic of biological evolution has become very hot.

The main reason is that science and technology have developed to the level of the [-]th century, and human beings' ability to explore the world has also improved simultaneously.

Human beings have been able to arrive normally in almost all places in the world.

Corresponding observations and thinking in line with the times also appeared earlier than in the original history.

What's more, in the Holy Word Records of Emperor Guangwu, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, some of the holy words involve the issue of species evolution.

Although it does not specifically explain the evolution of species, it gives a discussion of the nature of the direction.

One of the most representative lines is: "Natural selection, survival of the fittest".

Moreover, even in the original history, from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the concept of species evolution and change had already been formed.

In his "Philosophy of Plants" published in 1809, Lamarck put forward the hypotheses of "use it or lose it" and "acquired inheritance".

Lamarck in the original history clearly put forward the concept of species evolution at this time.

Although the theory of evolution may be wrong, people at that time already had the concept of species changing from simple to complex.

The Lamarck of this world is alive now.

His theories in this life are more mature and complex than those in his previous life, and have greater influence.

At present, researchers in this field, as well as nobles and scholars who understand this field, have basically recognized the concept of "variable species".

The main point of debate at present is what is the reason for the change of species and the summary of the law of change.

And, whether there are similar changes between different human groups.

Due to the existence of the Ming people, the differences and relationships between the Ming people, Taixi people, Tianzhu people, big cannibals, Yinzhou people, and Mozhou people are one of the hottest topics in the related fields of Taixi.

Why is Daming strong? Does it have something to do with the fact that Daming people are inherently better?
The answer to this question does not require in-depth discussion. Most people in this world believe that there is a relationship.

Daming people are better than Taixi people, and Taixi people are better than Mozhou people.

The question is why Daming people are so good, how did they become so good?
Can we become equally good after we find the rules?

Of course, what they most want to prove is that the difference between them and the people of Daming is smaller, and the gap between them and the people of Mozhou is even bigger.

In many cases, biology and history serve sociology...

Among the summarization and analysis of these changing laws, Lamarck's "use it or lose it" and "acquired inheritance" are the ones.

A certain ability of a creature can provide practical assistance for its survival and reproduction, then this ability will continue to increase, otherwise it will decline.

These ever-increasing abilities can be inherited by its offspring, and each generation becomes stronger.

The spokesman is of course Lamarck and his followers.

The other school is the analysis derived from Emperor Guangwu's "Natural selection, survival of the fittest".

Among the many living things, individuals who can adapt to the environment can survive and reproduce.

Otherwise, the individual will die or even the group will become extinct.

The king and queen of France, as well as the king and queen mother, were on this ship.

Although Louis XVI's hobby is machinery, Queen Mary especially likes to be lively. Of course, she wants to participate in such things as the enthronement ceremony of the Ming emperor.

Louis XVII Shire also really has feelings for his parents, and he is not a sincere king who usurped power and throne, so he came out with his parents.

Louis XVI is 66 years old this year, and he is not particularly old. Of course, there is no problem in traveling on the most stable large passenger liner.

The discussion of the scholars on board, of course, also reached the ears of the two generations of kings, and then the royal family also chatted.

Charles smiled and said to his parents, wives and children who were drinking tea:
"In my opinion, using the two viewpoints of "advance or lose" and "survival of the fittest" together gives a sense of comparison between optimists and pessimists.

"The optimists feel that as long as they work hard, they will be rewarded, and as long as they work hard to improve, they can change the characteristics of the ethnic group.

"The pessimists feel that their efforts are meaningless, the key is to look at the environment, the right time and place.

"You have to adapt to the current environment in order to survive, otherwise you won't be able to survive directly."

The comparison between optimism and pessimism is also a typical analysis method of Emperor Shizu Guangwu.

Queen Marie Antoinette listened to her son's statement, and couldn't help expressing her views with a smile:

"I think they are all quite optimistic, at least they all admit that animals and even humans can be improved to the level of excellence, rather than static.

"It's just that the former is talking about the fate of an individual, while the latter is talking about the fate of the entire group.

"That is to say, everyone feels that Taixi people have a chance to become Daming people, instead of just maintaining the current gap...

"Especially the French, are they the most adaptable to the current environment?"

Louis XVI puts down his teacup:
"This is a fact. I have read a lot of analysis in newspapers, which can prove that the characteristics of animals will change.

"There are comparisons of similar animals around the world, as well as experiments and cultivation at the microbial level.

"Even, at the most basic level, Daming's grain breeding and livestock breeding are all changing the characteristics of animals and plants.

"Although those who have problems will be abandoned, but staying is improving to a more excellent level..."

When Queen Mary heard her husband's point of view, she continued to ask casually:
"The breeding of animals and plants is indeed very intuitive, but it should not be compared to human society, right?

"We can let animals with obviously good characteristics breed as many offspring as possible, and then use its offspring as new breeds.

"Humans obviously can't do this, no one can control the combination and reproduction of humans..."

At this time, Louis XVII's queen Liu Muyu took over:

"My queen, I think, in fact...to a certain extent, a similar effect can be achieved.

"Although we can't force the individuals of the ethnic group to combine with whom, in fact, most of the French should want to combine with the Ming people, right?

"Long ago, as long as ordinary Taixi people had the opportunity, they would all want to marry Daming people.

"It became more common after I married Shire.

"If in the future, most of the French, as well as the descendants of the French and the Ming people, will continue to marry pure Ming people.

"Then the French in the future will become more and more like Ming people, and eventually they will be completely indistinguishable from each other."

Louis XVI nodded slowly after listening:
"It seems to make sense..."

Queen Mary's concerns were on another level:
"Then after mixing like this for a long time, will the French people have no body odor in the future?"

Liu Muyu shook her head directly and said:

"There will still be, according to what my sister told me... the current emperor of Ming Dynasty said that body odor is the so-called 'autosomal dominant inheritance'.

"The offspring of a person with body odor will always have half the chance of having body odor."

Now Queen Mary was a little surprised:
"What is... an autosome? What is a dominant inheritance? Half have body odor forever?

"Then what about you and Shire's descendants, will they always have body odor?"

Liu Muyu recalled what her sister explained to herself, and explained the logic to her parents-in-law:

"Chromosome... is His Majesty Emperor Ming's name for the internal genes that determine the shape and characteristics of humans and animals.

"What kind of appearance and characteristics humans will have, and whether they will have natural diseases are all determined by genes or chromosomes.

"Inheritance refers to the various physical characteristics that can be directly passed on from parents to children, including various diseases of course, but there may also be certain advantages.

"I don't know much about the others. I only know about the genetic law of body odor. I asked my sister to consult..."

Liu Muyu was talking, and asked the servant to bring a pen and paper, and began to write and draw on it.

First draw two circles side by side, and then write two groups of symbols "A Jia" and "AA" in them:
"One part of a person's genes comes from the father and the other part comes from the mother, so each person's genes are represented by two symbols.

"The so-called dominant inheritance means that as long as the body has this gene, it will directly cause the disease, which is represented by the Latin letter 'A' here.

"People without this gene, a completely normal gene, is represented by the character 'jia'.

"The vast majority of Thais have body odor, and most parents also have body odor, so most of their genes are 'AA'.

"Most people in Ming Dynasty don't have body odor, and most of their parents don't have body odor, so most of their genes are 'jiajia'.

"Now, when a Taixi is combined with a Daming, the genetic makeup of their offspring is a random combination of the two genes they possess.

"In this way, two groups of four genes are combined in pairs, and there will be a total of four possibilities..."

Liu Muyu drew four circles below them, and connected the four symbols in Jiajia and AA above to the four circles below:
"But the four possibilities for the combination of 'A Jia' and 'AA' are exactly the same, and the four children are all A, and all contain the Latin letter A.

"As I said before, body odor is a dominant genetic disease, so [-]% of their children have body odor...

"It has to wait until the third generation before they have a chance to wash off the body odor.

"When a child whose gene is 'A' combines with a pure Daming 'A' again.

"Among the four possibilities of pairwise combinations of two genes, there will be two 'A' and two 'A'.

"'A' has no body odor, 'A' has body odor, so the probability of having and not being both is 50.00%.

"Wait until the fourth generation, if the child of 'Jia Jia' combines with Daming 'Jia Jia' again.

"After the genes of the two parties are combined in pairs, the four possibilities are all 'A', so that there is no body odor [-]% of the time.

"However, the remaining two genes are the children of 'A', combined with Daming's 'A' again, the child will still have body odor with a 50.00% probability.

"Finally, if the gene is a child of 'A', it will also combine with other second-generation hybrids of 'A'.

"There are two combinations of two genes, and there are three 'A's and one 'A' out of four possibilities, which means that there is a 70.00% probability that five will have body odor.

"If a child of 'A', combines with an ordinary Tessian of 'AA'.

"In the possibility of gene combination, there are three AA, one A, [-]% have body odor.

"And the probability of 70.00% five is still the 'AA' Tessie gene, and their future offspring will still have body odor [-]%."

Queen Mary and Louis XVI stared at the schematic diagram drawn by Liu Muyu. After thinking for a while, they gradually understood the logic.

Queen Mary is more emotional:
"Why is this A so annoying, as long as it sticks on, there will definitely be body odor, and it will never get rid of it..."

Louis XVI was a little more rational:

"Even if all Taixi people are all married to Daming people in the future, there will always be some children with body odor."

Charles is thinking more far-reaching:
"So, among the common people in Daming, some of them are born with body odor because of their ancestors?"

Liu Muyu also nodded directly and said:
"Yes, this body odor, in some places in Daming, is called "hu stink" among the people, which originally means the stink of the barbarians.

"Although most people in Ming Dynasty are 'A', even those who have body odor, most of them are A, not AA of Taixi people.

"After they are combined, most of the children have only half the probability of developing the disease, and half the probability of not developing the disease.

"In a specific family, they may have several children without getting sick.

"However, when there are enough population samples, the probability of the disease in the entire group will be infinitely close to 50.00%.

"So unless external forces intervene, the body odor gene will never go away."

Liu Muyu is also a high-achieving student, of course he can complete this level of logical thinking.

Charles froze for a moment, and understood the logic:

"Unless you kill all the people with body odor, or sterilize them all, that is, don't let them have offspring, but no one can do this kind of thing."

Queen Mary here seemed to have another idea when she heard this:
“People are inherently different.

"Even if ordinary Taixi people want to combine with Daming people, they rarely have a chance.

"The people who really have the opportunity and can really realize it are basically nobles, wealthy businessmen, bureaucrats, and scholars.

"If France continues to reform and gradually implements the same selection and succession system as Ming Dynasty.

"You can choose children without body odor to inherit, and reduce the treatment of children with body odor.

"In this way, the top nobles in France will have the opportunity to transform into New French people without body odor within three generations.

"In the future, you can tell if a person is really from an old noble by looking at whether there is body odor."

When Liu Muyu heard this, she was rather worried and said:

"Isn't this a good thing? This will separate the French upper class from the common people..."

Queen Mary said of course:

"It was originally divided, the ordinary people and the upper class were originally two circles.

"Also, even if according to Daming's theory, it is necessary to give the lower class people some channels to rise, it will not be affected by this.

"It just adds a relatively clear standard to this upward channel.

"That is, whether you can marry a Daming person, and whether your children will have a chance to get rid of body odor in the future."

Liu Muyu wanted to say something else, but Xia Er next to her held her hand:
"Actually, this matter has become a fact, and such a trend is forming in the entire French upper class.

"What we can do now is to avoid possible problems as much as possible..."

(End of this chapter)