From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 7 17:43:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07562 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcrist.mediacity.com (orcrist.mediacity.com [208.138.36.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07542 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21185; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19981007174414.C18686@orcrist.mediacity.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:44:14 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two Y chromosomes [ Was: Java-based Crypto Decoder Ring ...] References: <19981006045145.26603@futuresouth.com> <19981006145323.M10980@orcrist.mediacity.com> <3.0.5.32.19981007111506.00937880@mail.scancall.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981007111506.00937880@mail.scancall.no>; from Marius Bendiksen on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:15:06AM +0200 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:15:06AM +0200, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > >Actually, such folk tend to have some physical and mental signs, which > >get worse as the number of additional chromosomes increases. There are > >people with XYYYY chromosomes, but they're usually quite retarded and > >have multiple physical problems. > > Considering how a man only has one (1) Y chromosome to contribute, I > don't -want- to know where the remaining three came from :/ Well, there are also issues with people having multiples of the X chromosome, too. So a person could have XXY or even XXXY. Or more X's, but people with a large number of additional chromosomes don't usually survive long. (Most aren't born alive.) Someone else reminded me that these (overmany X and overmany Y chromosomes) are known as Turner's and Klinefelter's syndromes, but I've forgotten which is which. > >If you want to know more, flip through an introductory genetics book; > >the resulting knowledge may intrigue you, will almost certainly > >disgust you, but hopefully will also instill you with a sense of awe > >at the amazing systems that make us "us". Evolution is cool. :) > > Humanity is a genetic cesspool, not the pinnacle of darwinian evolution :) We do carry some undesirable genes and gene sets, but as a whole, we're pretty amazing systems. There _is_ no pinnacle of Darwinian evolution, though. Perfection is awfully difficult to achieve, don't you agree? Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message