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Sexual Selection, Stasis, Runaway Selection, Dimorphism, & Human Evolution

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mick
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05-03-2005 8:07 PM 		Reply to: Message 27 by RAZD
05-03-2005 7:38 PM

Re: Expendability of males
In some {cases\species} the female has become able to do without the male altogether which makes all the offspring clones, independence in mating at the expense of loss of (most) variability. One wonders if another mechanism of sharing DNA would evolve given sufficient time: virus?
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Very nice idea! It would have to a virus that only infected gametes, though, as it wouldn't be very effective to attempt to infect all your I-dont-know-how-many trillion cells.
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05-03-2005 8:14 PM 		Reply to: Message 29 by RAZD
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Re: Expendability of males
razd, that is genius! Turn that into a sci-fi novel and you will be rich!
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05-04-2005 1:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 31 by EZscience
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Re: Expendability of males
Amazing! Goodbye phylogenetic trees, hello phylogenetic cobwebs!
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