Some of it already happens. Many pro basketball players marry tall, athletic mates; it’s safe to assume a crop of taller, more nimble children are now growing up. Other sports stars marry musicians and models. Their children will probably be quick-reacting singers with very attractive body parts.
On the other hand, some pretty, empty-headed entertainers are breeding with other pretty, dimbulb entertainers; their children might set new standards for dimwadness. They’ll be lovely, but their boots will have instructions written on the heels.
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Some of it already happens. Many pro basketball players marry tall, athletic mates; it’s safe to assume a crop of taller, more nimble children are now growing up. Other sports stars marry musicians and models. Their children will probably be quick-reacting singers with very attractive body parts.
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I’d like to take some futures contracts out on Tiger and Elin’s daughters. Man, are they likely to be stunningly good looking, and athletic to boot!
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Herbert wrote the Dune books with the Bene Geserit breeding program. Heinlein wrote books with the Howard foundation breeding long lived people.
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Thanks, missed that.
They’ve got something like this in Annapolis, MD, the home of the U.S. Naval Academy. Here are the evolutionary pressures:
(1) The USNA is run by senior and/or retired naval officers.
(2) Most senior officers are married with children.
(3) When requesting assignment to the Academy, it helps if you graduated from there.
(4) Many USNA graduates find their wives while they’re at the Academy.
So, you get generations of young officers marrying older officers’ daughters and/or the prettiest local girls (and because so many local girls go husband hunting in Annapolis, the boys really do get their pick). I can’t prove anything for sure, but spend a weekend in that town and you’ll know it’s true – the town’s gene pool is breeding future officers and pretty officers’ wives. All the men are right around six feet tall; all the women are slim and just a little curvy. It’s astonishing to see!
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OK, but the problem is that human generation times are what we scientists call very long. You’ve got a 15 year minimum generation time, and each breeding is likely to produce only one offspring. Since you will try to breed your prize specimens more than once, average generation time is going to be more than 15 years. So realistically, you’re only going to have 4 or 5 generations of breeding before you die. And die you will, you’re the emperor, but you’re not immortal. No problem, your successor will continue your breeding program. Or not. Wait, actually they probably won’t, once you’re dead the breeding program will likely be abandoned.
And that’s the rub.
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Yeah but when the aliens who live 10,000 Earth years enslave us all, they can do it, for both fun and profit.
Purely in the interests of science and research I’d like to offer my services.
I am perfectly willing to impregnate as many women as possible. Old, young, thin, fat,ugly, beautiful, any race colour or creed,rich or poor, short, tall, average, blond, brunette, redhead, bald…it really doesn’t matter as I’m not a picky guy
