As someone with a surface-level knowledge of a lot of different stuff I think I'm qualified to point out that surface-level knowledge and actual knowledge are very different things, and the Internet era has given a lot of people WAY too much confidence about confusing the two
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What we think of as modern "genetics" where "genes" are discrete rather than continuous bits of information was, sure, based on Mendel's work, and didn't become a science until the 20th century But that has... nothing to do with what I was talking about
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The concept of genetics as we understand it today would be completely foreign to Victorian novelists, but heritability coming from one's breeding can be found in the Old Testament (e.g. "visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the 3rd & the 4th generation")
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Me, reading this tweet and wondering what the fuck is the context: okay? Me, scrolling up in the thread: wait what
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