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Edwin
04-22-04, 02:27 PM
Looks like men are becoming obsolete.

Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3643847.stm
Stockwell
04-22-04, 03:29 PM
Yup, and even weirder, lesbians will actually be able to have their own children sooner or later.
ChokeOnSmoke
04-22-04, 03:42 PM
Thats pretty incedible
I was arachnoboards.com the other day and there was a discussion about a species of scorpion that is entirely female. At least there are no known males. They use parthenogenesis to reproduce.
Matt.B
04-23-04, 08:40 AM
a type of fish that lives in schools can actualy change sex. If the dominant male dies than the domanent female with change colour and sex to compensate for him.
Matt
ReneeB
04-23-04, 11:48 AM
african frogs do the sex change thing all the time.. playing with DNA can have nasty results a la Jurrassic Park.. I'd go for the whole parthenogenesis thing if it would work for me.. but that whole mammal thing..
sapphire_moon
04-23-04, 01:31 PM
awesome :) ........
Lisa
04-23-04, 05:03 PM
Looks like more trouble then it's worth...
Cruciform
04-23-04, 05:22 PM
If this happens then men will end up being purely sex toys and nothing else...

Hmmmm. Where do we donate to the cause? :D
CHRISANDBOIDS14
04-23-04, 05:48 PM
Cruciform: Haha!

Topic: Interesting.

C.
sapphire_moon
04-23-04, 06:28 PM
Please, like they would ever allow humans to be produced like that. You would be killed by the amount of "books" thrown at you, if you know what I mean.
rattekonigin
04-23-04, 06:46 PM
You never know...some people had/have issues with preserving frozen embryos and other infertility treatments that are currently quite common...times change
Cruciform
04-23-04, 07:06 PM
Sapphire: You could have said the same thing about "test tube" babies two decades ago. And now doctors regularly fertilize embryos in the lab so couples can have babies.
WingedWolf
04-24-04, 04:04 AM
There's nothing illegal about helping two women to have their own child.

It's not cloning. :)
Producing the child of two women will be EASY. What will be exceptionally difficult, will be producing the child of two men.
justinO
04-26-04, 03:57 PM
there's enough human sperm in sperm banks so that we wouldn't need men ever again! except for entertainment of course.... heh