Basal Metabolic Rate (Term)

Similar to a resting heart rate, it is the rate of Selyn consumption at an individual sime's basic life-sustaining rate before any augmentation.
Since the Sime and Gen mutations are still evolving, there are many, many sub-mutations and vast differences among individuals.  In fact, this kind of genetic diversity is clearly evident among Ancients, too, defying all attempts at statistical analyses. 
After the Sime~Gen mutation hit humanity and civilization collapsed, populations became isolated by geography.  As Ancients had already mixed populations on all the continents of Earth, inter-breeding erased most of the "racial" characteristics common among Ancients, but created new general trends among local populations.
With the World Tecton establishing world wide trade, populations mixed again, and Sime and Gen bred commonly, producing the visually similar populations of the Interstellar age bearing vastly different genetic markers.
As a result, there is no way to infer basal selyn consumption rates from the geographic origin of the individual.
As a general rule, channels have a higher basal consumption rate than renSimes, but don't bet your life on it, especially where Farris or Tigue genes may be involved.
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