Depends on how young the kid is when you adopt them. I think you underestimate the power of epigenetic and cultural forces on personality and interests.

They're blind to differences in color that the majority can see, so they see less of a range of colors. I guess "partial colorblindness" would be a little more accurate.

It's a mistake, they're the same—see my comment here. To see the actual difference between deuteranopia and protanopia, look at the two images I posted in this comment.

The posts you mention are anomaly hunting.

But maybe it's not just about wanting to spread your genes around, but also wanting to have a kid who is similar to you in personality and interests and such. That's a lot less likely with adopted children than with your own biological offspring. Anyway, the fraction of the world's population that can afford this sort…

Apparently it depends if they went blind before or after a cutoff age of about 5-7. Later than that and they still can see things in their dreams.

If you want to try to figure out whether you have deuteranopia or protanopia you can look at the images on this page—each circle has two numbers in it, one to the left of the center and one to the right, if you have deuteranopia you should only see the numbers on the left, if you have protanopia you should only see…

meant to reply to a different post, sorry

But what genetic and archaeological evidence rules out modernish humans in the middle east 400,000 years ago? Can we really tell flint tools made by anatomically modern humans apart from flint tools made by other hominids, when the tools are from times before modern humans started innovating in their tool-making…

It may not be "easy" in the sense of "requiring little training and presenting no real danger", but it may be "easy" in the sense of "once a band of hominids has refined their elephant-hunting skills over many generations, they can kill them pretty reliably whenever they need to". And remember they can engage in…

Well, the tones on the red and green in those pencils are fairly different (especially if you look at the darker green, instead of the lighter one to the left of the yellow)...can you clearly read both pairs of numbers in these images?

They're not different, it's a mistake—see the comments by me and Faustic_Caust a few down. Also see my comment immediately above showing what the pencils should actually look like for Deuteranopia vs. Protanopia (look especially at the purple pencil fourth from the right)

I found a website that has a feature that simulates what any image or website would look like for various types of colorblindness (and for colorblind people, it also has a feature that alters the colors to make the differences more visible), here's what this page would look like to a deuteranope, and here's what it…

I'd guess one thing that prevents too many nicotine overdoses is that it acts pretty quickly and smoking is a gradual way of taking it, so you'd probably start to feel really sick before you had smoked enough to overdose. But this makes me think of that scene in Thank Your For Smoking where they tried to kill the main…

Ecstasy isn't that easy to OD on, you have to take about 16 times the "effective dose" for it to be lethal, see the table here. Not that there aren't plenty of hardcore ecstasy users stupid enough to take 16 pills in a single night, of course.

Yes, but I think the note is itself in error, it's not just that the difference is slight but that they are actually identical. See my comment about testing it out in photoshop here.

Note: Deuteranopia and Protonopia look very much alike. I would recommend hitting the How Stuff Works (in the links here) site for more images that demonstrate the difference.

I hope they made a mistake uploading the image, because they look the same to me too (in case they edit the post later, the two images are here and here). The images for protanopia vs. deuteranopia on wikipedia do look different to me, so I think we're safe!

According to this article the more likely mutation is that they would have two different types of red cones, although two types of green cones is mentioned as a possibility too. But the article also says that the difference in wavelength between the cones produced by the different X chromosomes is somewhat random, and…

When I first rented the holiday special I thought I'd be able to laugh at it. But aside from a few moments, it was really just painful, full of boring amateurish scenes with no redeeming value that just seemed to stretch for ages...as bad as the prequels were at least they were nice eye candy on a visual level, and…