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Offline ReardenSteel

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Finally: Scientist prove sex is useful
« on: July 08, 2011, 09:56:05 PM »
Hat tip to Hot Air for the link and thread title. (paraphrased)

Well here is something we can all get behind, err get our heads around, err... whatever. I've known a handful of women that occasionally wished they could reproduce without having to deal with the less fair sex. Plus a few ex's I've run into who saw me in a store or bar who had that look. You know the look. The one that suggest they would prefer to copulate like some insects and bite the heads off their mate once they were through with us. Maybe it's just me.   :-)

Whatever. In any case it's nice to feel useful.  :wink:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/07/137681962/have-sex-to-stay-one-evolutionary-step-ahead?ft=1&f=1001

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Finally, the scientists looked at worms in their natural state, which can choose to reproduce sexually or asexually. They found was that the worms responded to an evolving parasite by adding lots of males to their population and having a lot more sex.

And that kept the worms one evolutionary step ahead of the parasite.
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

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Offline vesta111

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Re: Finally: Scientist prove sex is useful
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2011, 11:45:43 AM »
Hat tip to Hot Air for the link and thread title. (paraphrased)

Well here is something we can all get behind, err get our heads around, err... whatever. I've known a handful of women that occasionally wished they could reproduce without having to deal with the less fair sex. Plus a few ex's I've run into who saw me in a store or bar who had that look. You know the look. The one that suggest they would prefer to copulate like some insects and bite the heads off their mate once they were through with us. Maybe it's just me.   :-)

Whatever. In any case it's nice to feel useful.  :wink:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/07/137681962/have-sex-to-stay-one-evolutionary-step-ahead?ft=1&f=1001


One would guess that breeding with other worms would cause the DNA to kick in.   In other words the asexual worms were simply  replicating the host, no change in DNA.

Place this into humans, a mother has one set of identical twins . boys    -----2 years later she has another set of identical twins, girls.

Forgetting the aberration say the 2 sets of twins decide to marry.  Now what happens to the children they produce,    Both sets of twins are now parents to their own and the children by their brothers and sisters.  This is a night mare for the folks that work with DNA, 2 woman and 2 men with say each having 3 kids each, who is the mother and who is the father???

To go into science fiction that is now coming true every day in one way or another, These now 6 kids marry and produce 3 children each.    Got a calculator to figure out how many people with the same DNA is now walking about???

One of these people comits a crime and leaves their blood behind.  Trying to figure out who left the DNA will be impossible as this family all has the same.

Only way to tell any one of them apart is finger prints, if none are found now what?????

What fun to think of the strange possibility's heading our way in the future.