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  • Pop Quiz: Why Are There Two Sexes?

    From indoarsman@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 20 09:33:20 2017
    This isn't a joke, as you might reasonably suppose. Perhaps, because of your age, you might know more about life than the average citizen. -- BowTie

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  • From indoarsman@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 21 06:49:16 2017
    This quiz is open book, and there is no time limit. -- BowTie

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  • From indoarsman@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 22 05:54:56 2017
    A clue is the fact that animals reproduce sexually. Sexual reproduction is a fact of life. It is reality, not a 'social construct'. The double helix is the physical foundation for the two sexes. -- BowTie

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  • From indoarsman@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 15 09:21:44 2017
    The two sexes exist for sexual reproduction. In meiosis, which is more complicated than it used to be, the two strands of genes that form the double helix in the nucleus of a cell separate into two haploid cells, which eventually are ready to recombine
    with a haploid cell from a sexual partner to begin the life of a new human being. Meiosis scrambles the genes so that new humans have unique sets of genes.

    Without two sexes there would be no new people. -- BowTie

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  • From Gary@21:1/5 to indoarsman@gmail.com on Wed Aug 16 10:48:19 2017
    On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:21:44 -0700 (PDT), indoarsman@gmail.com wrote:

    The two sexes exist for sexual reproduction. In meiosis, which
    is more complicated than it used to be, the two strands of genes
    that form the double helix in the nucleus of a cell separate into
    two haploid cells, which eventually are ready to recombine with
    a haploid cell from a sexual partner to begin the life of a new
    human being. Meiosis scrambles the genes so that new humans have
    unique sets of genes.

    Without two sexes there would be no new people. -- BowTie

    We know that now. But ... how long has it been a fact ? These subjects about beginnings of life interest me. If we accept evolution -- I wonder at what point in time did two sexes become necessary ? Why can't a female fertilize her own egg ? Has she ever ? Two sexes ? I wonder if evolution ever experimented with three sexes ? I wonder what life would be like in
    a colony populated by only one sex ? Let's say 1,000 boys about age 10 were put on an island. For the next 70 years of their lives -- I wonder if they would enjoy it ? Would they have sex desires ?

    Questions, questions, questions !

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