DNA is DNA. Period. Even magical alien super-power-providing DNA.
And the damage was in the expression, not in the genes themselves. They are not in any way capable of determining what is a "beneficial" mutation according to human wants and desires. The Seeder Genes were supposed to affect a pre-sentient race, throwing all kinds of crap at it and letting natural selection sort out what power worked best for it; having them activate in a sentient race that's more or less lifted itself out of natural selection throws a huge monkey wrench into the process. I've never explored this even in random musing, but Warriors' World must have a much larger percentage of miscarriages, stillbirths and birth defects ("jokers", to use the Wild Cards terminology) than our world that can be directly attributed to the Seeder Genes.
Doug got a lot of beneficial stuff from the Seeder Genes, and one mid-sized pile of crap, basically.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
And the damage was in the expression, not in the genes themselves. They are not in any way capable of determining what is a "beneficial" mutation according to human wants and desires. The Seeder Genes were supposed to affect a pre-sentient race, throwing all kinds of crap at it and letting natural selection sort out what power worked best for it; having them activate in a sentient race that's more or less lifted itself out of natural selection throws a huge monkey wrench into the process. I've never explored this even in random musing, but Warriors' World must have a much larger percentage of miscarriages, stillbirths and birth defects ("jokers", to use the Wild Cards terminology) than our world that can be directly attributed to the Seeder Genes.
Doug got a lot of beneficial stuff from the Seeder Genes, and one mid-sized pile of crap, basically.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.