pdsufferer comments on Open thread for December 9 - 16, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pdsufferer 10 December 2013 08:12:56AM 6 points [-]

Don't traits have to be heritable for evolution to count? I'm not an expert or anything, but I thought I'd know if stars' descendants had similar properties to their parent stars.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 December 2013 03:03:21PM 0 points [-]

Descendant stars might have proportions of elements related to what previous stars generated as novas. I don't know whether there's enough difference in the proportions to matter.