[tacticalogic]

Identical twins have many differences. If genes determine everything, why do identical twins, with exactly the same genes, have different finger prints?

Who has said that "genes determine everything", and meant literally "everything", right down to your fingerprints?

[Hank Kerchief]

“Who has said that ‘genes determine everything’, and meant literally ‘everything’, right down to your fingerprints?

No one, as far as I know. It’s one of the “evo” things that is just assumed until someone like me points it out. No genes, for example have even been identified that determine how many fingers and toes we have, much less that we have any.

So, if everything is not determined by genes, what are they determined by, and where do you drew the line, as to what is determined by the genes, and what isn’t?

And if genes do not determine everything, morphologically, what does, and how can evolution be determined by changes in genes if something else is determining morphology?

Just questions evos never want to address.

Hank