Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, say scientists

Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by CSMastermind on Saturday December 02, 2023 @07:27PM (#38503613)

> Might as well be raising a dog and a dolphin.

That made me chuckle.

But it's possible for siblings not to share any genetic material right?

A brother and a sister would obviously get different genes from their father and presumably there would be a 50/50 chance of them getting different genes from their mother.

There's four unique prototypes of children any two people can produce together.

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by caseymarquis on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:14PM (#38503887)

I thought it was more like 2^23 unique prototypes?

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by darkerside on Saturday December 02, 2023 @07:36PM (#38503674)

Four prototypes?

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by danwills on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:27PM (#38503952)

Gamete cells get a random half of all genes from each parent so there's about 2 unique possible 'sets' from each parent, and 2*2=4. However because it's random I think you can only say there are 4 distinct completely unique possibilities in theory, but it would be very unlikely for that to actually happen in practice.

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by darkerside on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:06PM (#38504437)

Ahh, as in fully exclusive sets of genes

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by diroussel on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:06PM (#38510270)

Each parent supplies half the genetic material. But each sperm and each egg have a randomly different set of one half of each chromosomes. So if you have 10 children chances are they each have a unique set of chromosomes.

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by rand0mx1 on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:44PM (#38504322)

Probably genotype. Isn't it

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by fsckboy on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:55PM (#38504372)

>Four prototypes?

gp said four unique prototypes

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by harry_ord on Sunday December 03, 2023 @02:24AM (#38505488)

> But it's possible for siblings not to share any genetic material right?

Kinda but the mother always provides the mitochondria.

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by CSMastermind on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:37AM (#38505728)

I think that's an area of open research: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1810946115

But yes, that's a good distinction I should have made!

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Re:Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, s... by harry_ord on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:18AM (#38506843)

Oh that's cool. Now I have something new to read thanks.

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