User blog:CHolt/Another Observation...

So, I just was reading over IC's blog: http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:ICWienerblammo/Corndog_Ailles_and_scienciey_junk, which made me think. I thus came up with this post: Naturally, it is virtually impossible for two different species (unless they are very closely related genetically, such as different bird subspecies) to produce hybrid offspring. Before even talking about genetic traits, the fact that two phenotypically very different species managed to produce (although if the faceless pup is anything to go by, not unaffected) offspring, this is incredible to say the least. This would mean Rainicorns and Dogs are incredibly closely related, genetically. Phenotypes are of course not really good in determining genetic identity, and thus this might be the case here - similar genetic sequence, but different appearance-releated genes. However, phenotypes are usually correlated with genotypes, so it is incredibly bizzare two species with almost identical genotypes have wildly different phenotypes. An example: humans can't reproduce with mice, which are roughly 96% related to us genotypically, but Neanderthals (which are a subspecies of Homo sapiens) eventually got integrated into Cro-Magnons (regular Homo sapiens sapiens). Thus, Dogs and Rainicorns must share a common evolutionary ancestor and diverged from it not too long ago (hundreds of years perhaps) in order to be so closely related. Note: there was only one senitent race inhabiting Earth hundreds of years ago - humans. TL;DR Corndogs should even be happening, Rainicorns and Dogs (and possibly other senitent species on Ooo as well) are decended from humans.

Apart from the implication all senitent things on Ooo are decended from humans, there's something else. How did one species give rise to many with great phenotypic variety? It makes sense that the radiation left over from the GMW caused mutations which propagated over time, but the process of macroevolution, especially on a scale this size, takes billions, not hundreds, of years. Thus, we can reasonably conclude that humanity suffered lots of genetic damage all at once due to the radiation, but there's another thing. No where in our documented history has there been radical phenotypical or genotypical changes in the DNA of a species exposed to radiation - In fact, the most radical change known are the swallow population living around Chernobyl and Pripyat. The radiation sterilized many of them from birth, but nothing more. This is not including the fact that most changes done to the genetic code are often detrimental, causing cancer and other diseases that will quickly kill off affected people. Thus, there must have been other external factors that would have caused such a radical change. On a side note, consider that Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant used during Vietnam and containing the mutagenic and incredibly deadly compound Dioxin, is know to cause radical deformation and birth defects in offspring of those exposed to it.