Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Kinky Sex

collage by magueritaSex, to get technical about it, is the mixing of genes from two parents to make a new individual that has a genetic contribution from both. Asexuality thus refers to any of a number of forms of reproduction that involve only one genetic parent.
Male-only asexuality is likely to lead to extinction and faster.
After all, if males routinely hijack eggs and turn those eggs into males, the population will be in danger of becoming all male.
If this happens, there won’t be any eggs left to hijack. Indeed, it’s probably not a coincidence that both the tree and the clam are actually hermaphrodites — individuals make both eggs and sperm — and thus the supply of eggs is less likely to run out
imminently.http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/

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