>>27235257Another example. If you really want to make a stretch one could assume that Eevee were selectively bred (much like many modern breeds of dogs and cats), leading to certain desirable traits on the outside, but also the odd genetic disorder. There's a condition called Li-Fraumeni syndrome in which the protein that protects genomic damage is less efficient at making reparations. People with Li-Fraumeni are therefore more susceptible to the formation of tumours, which is why they don't get radiation therapy during their cancer treatment.
>>27235293>>27235323Not saying it's very plausible, just saying there is a basis for this. Several mutations to a single epidermal cell can give it the hallmarks of cancer, leading to a hyperproliferative tumour. So one cell becomes loads. I guess that's what they were thinking when developing Deoxys (and that's if they even were using the same themes from Gen I for Gen III).
>>27235293The artificial womb may not be all to far away, but they weren't a part of the actual cloning protocol that proved successful back in the 90's. Surrogacy of modified cells was the way to go.
>you can't say something can't happen in a fictional universe because it's only currently possible irlNot what I'm saying, I'm just speculating over the most likely inspiration for the development of the Mew/Mewtwo lore. I think it's more likely that they were influenced by a story about a scientific study that was most likely gathering a lot of attention worldwide, not that it's all some generic Sci-Fi thing. But whatever.
>>27235380There's a difference between adult and embryonal stem cells. What a stem cell can evolve into depends greatly on potency (embryonal stem cells being totipotent whilst adult ones are pluripotent).
