it's that ol' chromosome thing
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Originally Posted by
Kaitlyn Michele
............................................and it will always be that way, just like with every species
its not days gone by at all...its not something brutally imposed on us, its just the natural order...
Careful with that one Kaitlyn. We have species in our oceans today that can reproduce by themselves. N[SIZE="4"]o male or female interaction occurs for reproduction. Evolution could do the same for the human species,[/SIZE] we just do not know for sure, but we cannot limit ourselves by the unknown based on what we know. We must considder what we don't know.
this just in from the NYTIMES
Men, or at least male biologists, have long been alarmed that their tiny Y chromosome, once the same size as its buxom partner, the X, will continue to wither away until it simply vanishes. The male sex would then become extinct, they fear, leaving women to invent some virgin-birth method of reproduction and propagate a sexless species.
The fear is not without serious basis: The Y and X chromosomes once shared some 800 genes in common, but now, after shedding genes furiously, the Y carries just 19 of its ancestral genes, as well as the male-determining gene that is its raison d’être. So much DNA has been lost that the chromosome is a fraction of its original size.
if you are interested in reading the rest of the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/sc...me&ref=science
ps with age, everything gets to be just a fraction of its original size!