@admiral-craymen replied to your post “In a future decimated by war, only a small band of humans survive. The radiation from the war has created many new species,...”
What's the difference between a mutant and a mutant mutant mutant?
A mutant mutation is when the mutated trait is passed on genetically – i.e. an animal with blue eyes, or a wing, has blue eyes ,as far as everyone knows, even if they didn't have blue eyes before they were exposed to blue light, or ate a blue object (this could be true for other traits, like height).
A "mutant" "mutant" (say what you will about the spelling) is a creature which has some unusual form or other of change in itself, but is not a mutation in the sense described above; a mutant is a creature which looks weird, even grotesque, or has unusual abilities, or whatever, but does not have any of the traits that are heritable.
