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| Harlequin_Jester #871114 6 months ago |
I'm having high school biology flashbacks. |
| Anonymous #871126 6 months ago |
confound these genetics they drove me to insanity |
| Gamesadict #871130 6 months ago |
Holy crap, I feel like I went 8 years back in time.
Good times. |
| marioandsonic #871131 6 months ago |
Don't you use your fancy genetics to muddy the issue! |
| Bongo #871138 6 months ago |
I just realized
We haven't ponified Bill Nye yet. |
| Anonymous #871139 6 months ago |
Damn. I can't find any white spots it this theory. You win an internet. And a cup of ponies. |
| Anonymous #871142 6 months ago |
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| Aemilius #871155 6 months ago |
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| Anonymous #871156 6 months ago |
Can't we just agree that pony genetics are almost completely random and that while the parent's pony type plays a role that the baby pony could come out as any type |
| Aemilius #871160 6 months ago |
Damn ninjas! |
| Bongo #871164 6 months ago |
By Celestia! You guys are fast |
| Anonymous #871167 6 months ago |
bonus: now we know why, like, everyone in canterlot is a unicorn....... |
| Dionysus #871195 6 months ago |
SCIENCE ! |
| Anonymous #871519 6 months ago |
All that explanation, and the author forgot that two species can't have fertile offsprings.
So, there aren't three pony *species*. They're at most subspecies. |
| Vree #872059 6 months ago |
^A common misconception. Actually hybridization is quite common within the same genus (such as horse, donkey and zebra in the Equus genus), and these hybrids aren't neccessarily infertile (another popular misconception), though it is true that fertility drops dramatically in a hybrid species. Though of course, "species" is an artificial term, and pony interbreeding may have any degree of difficulty depending on how different they are genetically (based on the fact that there are still three distinct types of ponies today, either there is a cultural taboo keeping them separate, or horns, wings and general Earth pony traits are genetically very dominant traits).
You are, of course, right that they are probably subspecies. |
| Anonymous #872233 6 months ago |
That's a pretty good model. I was wondering about ratios, and this makes sense. Unicorns pretty rare, earth ponies most common seems best. Well done. |
| coyotecrow4 #872347 6 months ago |
The punnet squares are back for my soul... |
| Anonymous #872578 6 months ago |
All good stuff, up until you said
"only a theory". |
| grumpie_pie #874750 6 months ago |
[img]http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/8d1d266c0a72b9a165c7e33177c90804/113040%20-%20baby%20foal%20recolour%20spitfire.jpg[img] |
| grumpie_pie #874753 6 months ago |
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