"Positive choice..."
"Negative selection..."
"draw."
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The number of newborns in the world is 380,000 to 390,000 every day, and an average of 0.24 seconds a baby comes into this world.
In one second, in the blink of an eye, four or five babies were born.
If you gather the cries of a newborn baby for a day, it will be a sharp and piercing sound wave; if they all make the sound of positive and negative choices or a tie, it will be even more huge waves. And such a huge wave is churning in Gu Jun's mind.
Negative selection, draw, positive selection...
Countless immature voices surged and twisted together, scraping his cortex, his neurons, and his blood vessels.
When Gu Jun, Cai Zixuan, Wang Ruoxiang and the others arrived at Dahua First People's Hospital, they could vaguely hear the huge waves, and when he walked into this isolated baby nursery, all the blood vessels in his body were swollen. But he wasn't entirely sure if he really heard it, or if it was just a hallucination.
The cry of the baby suddenly sounded, and it sounded in this nursery room.
This incubator room is quite spacious, with a row of incubators and related instruments and equipment against the wall, but most of the incubators are empty inside the transparent glass, and only five of them contain babies, two boys, Three baby girls.
One positive selection, two negative selections, two draws.
There was another severe stabbing pain in his head, and Gu Jun took a deep breath, allowing the oxygen supplied by the oxygen cylinder in the protective suit to fill his lungs and abdomen.
He let out a long breath again, but it didn't relax his heart.
"Hao Jun?" Cai Zixuan, who was walking beside him, asked.
Wang Ruoxiang also looked over. She had a keen sense of genetics when the locusts transformed into a disease last time, and she came here with a heavy responsibility this time.
"It's okay." Gu Jun responded, "I feel bad."
Wearing level four protective clothing is just a routine procedure. In fact, he had already anticipated this day, and Uzza's cat and Great Elder Atal had also announced it.
Calling on Shabu-Nikolas against Chaos is not without consequences.
The consequences were not just the painful loss of miscarriages for millions of pregnant women at the time...
Some words that the old civet cat said rang again in Gu Jun's ears:
"That should be different from the disasters you have faced in recent years... Diseases and plagues are meant to destroy life. Shab Nicholas does not destroy life, it reproduces life and evolves life. It will be a disaster."
After returning from the dreamland before, Gu Jun handed in the original words verbatim when he gave a report.
So as soon as today's incident happened and reported to the Magic Department, it immediately caused a shock.
What is coming, is still coming.
"I think it's not scattered words, but the words themselves." Gu Junchu had this judgment after hearing the baby's words.
And soon, emergency notifications from other countries confirmed this.
Whether it is Citigroup, Ross, England, or the five continents of the world, this abnormal situation has suddenly appeared. The difference is that they speak the local language.
But not all newborns, the preliminary statistics are not the average probability, and there is no prominent commonality of the population.
Some of these abnormal newborns were born to both parents, some were born to single mothers, and some were born to test-tube baby surrogates.
The ages of those mothers range from early pregnant girls in their teens to advanced mothers in their forties, almost all over the reproductive age of women.
All social classes and various occupations are not enough.
From the data it looks like it is completely random. Even if there are five pregnant women or three pregnant women in the same delivery ward, it is possible that the last baby will not be abnormal, one may appear, or two or three may appear.
Not only Dahua City, Dongzhou City, Mobei City and other places, such abnormal babies also appeared.
The same thing appeared on the side of the mysterious world.
This is no accident.
"Wow, wow..." The baby girl cried very loudly, she was Xu Qiuyue, the first abnormal baby born in this hospital, negative selection.
Gu Jun stood in front of the incubator, looking at the baby in the incubator, who was no bigger than a grandparent.
Her face was flushed from crying, and her wrinkled eyes were still open.
"I'll call the nurse." Cai Zixuan turned around and walked away.
Gu Jun took another deep breath, remembering that the baby's father almost knelt on the ground begging them to save his daughter just now, while the baby's mother was still recuperating on the postpartum hospital bed, unaware that the situation had escalated to the highest level. level.
Positive selection, positive sele
This is a concept of natural selection. To put it simply, a mutated gene in an individual in the population makes this individual have a stronger ability to survive and a higher chance of reproduction in the environment, so it benefits and has more The offspring, the mutant gene has spread through the population.
This is called positive selection.
Negative selection, ive sele
Contrary to positive selection, individuals whose mutated genes are unsuitable for their environment, impair their viability and reduce their chances of reproduction, will be eliminated naturally.
In the long history of human evolution, there must have been more different genes, which caused various diseases, defects, and weirdness, but they were not passed down in the human gene pool, because of premature death, premature death, and no offspring.
This is called negative selection.
However, whether a mutant gene is positively selected or negatively selected is not absolute, but depends on the environment.
edar370a is a gene unique to most East Asians. One of its functions is that the density of sweat glands in the human body is 15% higher than that of other races, and it is particularly prone to sweating; the other is that it causes denser and straighter hair without the natural curl.
Because this mutation had a survival advantage in adapting to the environment in ancient times, it is positive selection.
But if you put edar370a in a desert environment that is hot all year round, it will be a negative selection.
Because sweating easily means that the body will lose more water faster. In places where water sources are scarce, not sweating easily is the right choice.
During the Little Ice Age, the diabetes-causing gene was positively selected, because rising blood sugar would increase body temperature, thus better resisting cold and hunger, and having a greater chance of survival. You must know that the life expectancy of people in the Little Ice Age was comparable to that of people who died of diabetes Life expectancy is much shorter.
In modern times, this gene is negative selection. If the whole world freezes suddenly, this gene will become positive selection again.
Therefore, the mutant gene itself has no positive or negative distinction. It is the environment that determines the positive and negative. The fittest survive and the unfit are eliminated.
The environment is always changing, so the genes of a group must be diverse.
Even some seemingly useless and harmful genes are still accompanied by human beings. They may have been the best survival strategies at one time, or one day, they suddenly became the best strategies.
Not always choose positive selection to inherit, neither special advantage nor special loss, it is balanced selection.
positive selection, negative selection, draw
What is the decision now? There are all kinds of environments in the world. Is this the era when the dark forces are active to a new peak...
Gu Jun noticed that among the five abnormal babies in the nursery, the two tied babies fell asleep peacefully.
The one who was choosing the baby had already opened a pair of big dark eyes, turned around, and looked at the world curiously.
As for the two negative selection babies, both were crying and seemed uncomfortable.
At this time, Wang Ruoxiang reminded: "Xu Qiuyue seems to be opening her eyes..."
Gu Jun also saw that the eyes of this negative choice baby named Xu Qiuyue were opening. The opening time of newborn eyes varies from person to person, from birth to a week.
For some reason, he looked at the two creased eyes, and panic surged in his heart.
Suddenly, the little baby girl opened her eyes crying.
Those newborn eyes were full of whites, without pupils.
That is, no lens, all vitreous, all vitreous...
negative selection.