User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5043481-20130101122918

A while back, I forulated a theory about the rath's colours. It was full of holes, but thanks to the superb hole picking abilities of Demo, it fell down. This is a better one!

This theory attempts to explain the colouration of the rathalos and rathians. It hinges on the colour of the shell being a sexual trait, so it is located on the X and Y chromasones. These determine features accosiated with gender. In humans the Y contains information about maleness.

Now, in the old theory, the colours themselves were on the X and Y chromasones. I now think there is a colour picking gene on the Y that makes the rathalos colour become apparant.

There would be 3 colour genes for a rathian, and 3 for a rathalos. The commonest colours would be dominant. Any combination with red in it will become red, but silver only expresses itself when both genes are silver. Same with rathians, just green. pink and gold. The reccesive genes are not filtered out, blond is a reccesive gene in humans, and that hasn't dissapeared yet, has it?

There! much simpler, and therefore better. Please feel free to pick holes.