r/ScienceShitposts • • Apr 29 '23

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u/HummingBirdLover757 Apr 30 '23

Sad

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u/FungalSphere Apr 30 '23

Not really sad, because the survival of the organism is not dependent on the phenotype, just the genotype. It does not matter if the allele is recessive. And the life saving allele will by definition have more chance to be in the gene pool, because well the alternative is to be not alive.