Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:44:14 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two Y chromosomes [ Was: Java-based Crypto Decoder Ring ...] Message-ID: <19981007174414.C18686@orcrist.mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981007111506.00937880@mail.scancall.no>; from Marius Bendiksen on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 11:15:06AM %2B0200 References: <ML-3.3.907703202.1183.patl@asimov> <19981006045145.26603@futuresouth.com> <ML-3.3.907703202.1183.patl@asimov> <19981006145323.M10980@orcrist.mediacity.com> <3.0.5.32.19981007111506.00937880@mail.scancall.no>
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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
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