knabe said:
What is the end game of the double muscle mutants.
Piedmontese type product?
If one could consider the kind of study I do education, then an educated guess would be that the end game of these mutations is a metabolic, adrenal and melanistic adjustment to the rigors of life as a tool of medieval peasants.
From A List of Foods of Medieval Times:” The majority of peasants worked as farmers, growing foodstuffs and rearing cattle for their landlords, who were often rich or part of the nobility. While meat was destined for the landlords, milk and eggs were generally more accessible to the peasants. Adults rarely consumed milk, and cheese was the main source of protein for the poor, together with beans and peas. The upper classes also ate cheese, but preferred types that were very salty and aged.”
How such energetic adjustments become fixed is beyond my ability to form an opinion on, I doubt if such processes are well understood by even the most daring evo-devonauts. I’m venturing there is crosstalk, before cell type differentiation and in waves during embryogenesis, between the hormones that originate in the pituitary gland. Interrupting the synthesis of one hormone has effects upon others, expressed in continuous fashion according to environmental stress.
I would say artisanal cheese is the end game, since artillery hauling oxen are obsolete. Optimal Beef production with these mutations seems fraught with pre and post slaughter considerations that require casually shooting an aged animal as it peacefully ruminates and slowly cooling the meat.
https://www.healthline.com/health/human-body-maps/pituitary-gland#anatomy-and-function
The anterior lobe of your pituitary gland is made up of several different types of cells that produce and release different types of hormones, including:
Growth hormone. Growth hormone regulates growth and physical development. It can stimulate growth in almost all of your tissues. Its primary targets are bones and muscles.
Thyroid-stimulating hormone. This hormone activates your thyroid to release thyroid hormones. Your thyroid gland and the hormones it produces are crucial for metabolism.
Adrenocorticotropic hormone. This hormone stimulates your adrenal glands to produce cortisol and other hormones.
Follicle-stimulating hormone. Follicle-stimulating hormone is involved with estrogen secretion and the growth of egg cells in women. It’s also important for sperm cell production in men.
Luteinizing hormone. Luteinizing hormone is involved in the production of estrogen in women and testosterone in men.
Prolactin. Prolactin helps women who are breastfeeding produce milk.
Endorphins. Endorphins have pain-relieving properties and are thought to be connected to the “pleasure centers” of the brain.
Enkephalins. Enkephalins are closely related to endorphins and have similar pain-relieving effects.
Beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone. This hormone helps to stimulate increased pigmentation of your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
