Quote from: The Old One on Aug 18, 2018, 04:31:02 AM
Not to be snobbish, but you clearly don't understand how genetics work if you can't fathom the idea that in an artificial recreation of an animal- a trait normally only present in one caste/role would be carried over to multiple or all of them, hence digitigrade legs.
Perhaps, but it's not like they were recreating the Alien from scratch. They cloned Ripley to get a Queen, and the Queen and Ripley's DNA overlapped to varying degrees with each clone attempt. So the act of cloning... destabilized the Queen's genetic code enough that now she'd pass the genetic information for her digitigrade legs down to the adult Aliens as an unintended byproduct?
I'm not a geneticist, are there real-world examples of things like that happening?
To be fair I suppose you could use the same logic to address why the backs of the Aliens' heads are no longer phallic - the underside is flat and ridged, like the Queen. Likewise the tip of the Resurrection Alien's tail is more like the Queen than like the Aliens from the first two. Framing it that way, I can kinda get behind the idea.
Of course this all goes out the window if one incorporates AvP (and yes, I recognize that you don't), or any other source that has digitigrade legs for human-born Aliens (Alien: Isolation, some of the comics).