... and for the record, I don't think this is an sf thing, but a "having studied genetics" thing. Shaping/shaped isn't a chicken and egg situation: we are all shaped by the world we grow up in--which is what I meant when I said that part of worldbuilding was having characters shaped to their environment--and then, if we're lucky, we get to do a bit of shaping later on.
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Date: 2006-06-08 08:12 pm (UTC)