Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24994749-20141124035947

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: Shadow at Morning wrote: That is a massive oversimplification. We cannot possibly attribute the Faunus traits to a single gene, or even a small group of genes, nor can we simplify enough to actually use a dominant/recessive scheme. This isn't Mendel's pea plants. It's much more complicated than that. Faunus have been identified as being from a separate species on several occasions. Although that would seemingly make it impossible for them to be biologically compatible, this is a fantasy world where science does not quite apply in the same sense it applies in the real world. It's true that in universe faunus and humans call each other different species, but isn't it possible that it works more like them being different sub-species that still retain the ability to interbreed? Or maybe it will later on turn out they treat each other as a different species more out discrimination than anything factually scientific, and the genes that determine faunus traits are no different than the ones that determine skin or eye colour.