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Boy interrupted: Y-chromosome mutations reveal precariousness of male development
Biology News Net ^ | September 2, 2013 | NA

Posted on 09/16/2013 3:32:09 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: Doogle

It is impossible for a male cat to be “calico”


21 posted on 09/16/2013 4:23:16 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Keep on smokin that stuff!


22 posted on 09/16/2013 4:25:12 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: yldstrk

Leftist feminazi prof promoting a path to another false science of consensus that being gay is a genetically programmed behavior. Born that way... can’t be cured... you know... the new agenda.


23 posted on 09/16/2013 4:26:32 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: editor-surveyor

"...????....then that that that's a dingle berry?"

24 posted on 09/16/2013 4:26:46 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Fragile X Syndrome has nothing to do with the X chromosome breaking. In the mutation, the X has a large number of serial tandem repeats. It’s named for the appearance this gives it on staining, with a separated piece due to the unmarked section.


25 posted on 09/16/2013 4:27:17 PM PDT by Styria
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To: neverdem

Laughable and absurd conclusions from half-baked academics desperately trying to spout the party line in order to get funding. Lysenko would be proud.

The simplest explanation for the findings, and the explanation most concordant with prior knowledge and observed nature, is that the failure of a few males to achieve reproductive success is immaterial, as the number of females is invariably the real population bottleneck.

Mammalian life is replete with examples of species that effectively write off a significant portion of males as genetic dead ends. Polygamy is the norm among many higher mammals, as well as within primitive human societies (along with polygyny), so a genetic abnormality that causes a small fraction of males to fail to reproduce will face orders of magnitude less selective pressure than a similar abnormality on the female line - especially if such failures to masculinize were chiefly due to interference from strongly-selected-for maternal traits (i.e. mitochondrial DNA influences, the “Mother’s Curse”).

It’s absurd to claim that such conditions are actually SELECTED FOR, or even more laughably that they provide a significant level of benefit due simply to the laughably assumed benefits of “diversity”.


26 posted on 09/16/2013 4:27:25 PM PDT by jameslalor
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To: neverdem
Michael Weiss, MD, PhD, and his colleagues at the university's School of Medicine have determined that the pathway for male sexual development is not as consistent and robust as scientists have always assumed.

I was driving down Sunset Blvd. in W. Hollyweird a few weeks ago, and I can confirm this is correct.
27 posted on 09/16/2013 4:27:32 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Doogle

Actually, my mom had two gay cats. I swear!


28 posted on 09/16/2013 4:29:10 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: yldstrk
I am too stupid to get what they are talking about

I grew up on a farm. Whatever happened to just lifting the tail up and giving it a gander?

29 posted on 09/16/2013 4:29:37 PM PDT by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: neverdem
Extensive studies of gender-associated styles of childhood play and the acquisition of social competencies by Dr. S. Baron-Cohen and colleagues at Cambridge University (UK) have highlighted the long-term effects of testosterone secretion by the fetal testis.

I think we are being punked here.


Sacha Baron Cohen, perhaps?

30 posted on 09/16/2013 4:39:32 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: fwdude

ok good


31 posted on 09/16/2013 4:48:00 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Doogle

Give it a taste test.


32 posted on 09/16/2013 4:48:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

They are saying this is why Rosie O’Donnell has hair all the way down her back and chest.

lol


33 posted on 09/16/2013 4:48:58 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SatinDoll

Oh THAT’S what this garbage is about


34 posted on 09/16/2013 4:49:35 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

.....and why Michelle Obama has a penis


35 posted on 09/16/2013 4:53:11 PM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: yldstrk

.....and why Michelle Obama has a penis


36 posted on 09/16/2013 4:53:29 PM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: yldstrk
I am too stupid to get what they are talking about

Laying the groundwork to support the notion that homos are an important part of human society.

37 posted on 09/16/2013 4:55:22 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: yldstrk; neverdem; workerbee; Billthedrill; SatinDoll

The article moves from actual science to PC propaganda. Weiss is studying how an embryo becomes male or female — a biological process complicated enough that it can go wrong sometimes. This is biology, based on experiment and observation. Billthedrill explained the basics. Baron-Cohen is studying autism and sex differences — how the biology translates into behavior. Still science, but complicated science because it involves human behavior. Then Susan Case from the School of Management brings in the party line. To confirm your stereotypes about her, check her web page http://weatherhead.case.edu/faculty/Susan-Case/


38 posted on 09/16/2013 4:57:41 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: Farnsworth

well I have wondered why she stands with her feet so far apart


39 posted on 09/16/2013 4:58:13 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: omega4412

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

unsee

unsee


40 posted on 09/16/2013 4:59:10 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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