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I hope this isn't a half-baked question but it's in regard to recent news stories about massive rises in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah since the US assault in 2004, for example http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects and the possibility of future birth defects following radiation exposure in Japan. (Hopefully, this thread will not get derailed by boring political discussion)
What I want to know is with a 15 fold rise in birth defects and one hospital reporting that 70% of babies born in a month had some kind of deformity, what is the probability of there being some kind of physically beneficial birth defect or at the very least, non-detrimental ones? Also, is it possible that a particular mutation can be passed into subsequent generations?
More specifically: in a few hundred years, will we have to worry about a hoarde of mutants rising up out of radioactive waste zones to exact revenge against the world?
What I want to know is with a 15 fold rise in birth defects and one hospital reporting that 70% of babies born in a month had some kind of deformity, what is the probability of there being some kind of physically beneficial birth defect or at the very least, non-detrimental ones? Also, is it possible that a particular mutation can be passed into subsequent generations?
More specifically: in a few hundred years, will we have to worry about a hoarde of mutants rising up out of radioactive waste zones to exact revenge against the world?