Month: September 2022

"A MIND-BLOWING DIVERSITY of sex-determining mechanisms exists among eukaryotes." https://lnkd.in/dX2rADH View in LinkedIn

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417 million in talcum powder case. Shame on the Family company. View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION in nature appears to be a central goal of all living things, along with the generation of increasing genetic fitness, by either complexification or by outsourcing simplification of the driver genome. Reproduction is front and central. All else can be seen as secondary. View in LinkedIn

CENTRAL QUESTION. “Sex has been termed the “queen of problems in evolutionary biology”, and how sex is determined in the animal kingdom has always been a major question with “debates on the origin of the sexes that took place long before the beginning of the scientific era.” https://lnkd.in/dSwmRPP View in LinkedIn

ONLY GENES MATTER. "A common misconception about evolution is that it's optimizing for the maximum survival of organisms. This is not true. Evolution is optimizing for the replication of genes. Organisms are disposable vessels to transport genes from place to place and create congenial circumstances for their replication. Once you've produced your offspring, you're of no further evolutionary use." https://lnkd.in/dfnYR7G View in LinkedIn

THE DRIVE TO REPRODUCE. "Nature has designed life, from the smallest microbe to the largest whale, to have one basic purpose. That purpose is to reproduce. Whatever else an organism does, reproduction is its basic goal. To make a copy of itself, the organism must create another organism that contains the same genes. This can be done asexually or sexually." https://lnkd.in/dGBEY2Z View in LinkedIn

CONTINUATION OF THE GERMPLASM. "Samuel Butler once said, "The hen is the egg's way of making another egg." There is a much truth in this adage. In the natural world, the egg's vehicle, be it fish, fowl or flower, doesn't matter. What does matter is that the vehicle gets the egg fertilized, hatched, and far enough along in development to have a chance of producing another egg." http://public.wsu.edu/~taflinge/biosex1.html View in LinkedIn

GENE CENTRALITY. "The egg contains the hen's genes, which combine with the rooster's genes. The genes create from the raw materials of organic life another chicken. That chicken then has another egg. It is not the egg, but the genetic material that the egg nourishes and brings to fruition that is important. It is the genes that must be passed on if a species is not to become extinct." http://public.wsu.edu/~taflinge/biosex1.html View in LinkedIn

"REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES are structural, functional and behavioral adaptations that improve the chances of fertilization and/or increase the survival rate of offspring." https://lnkd.in/dw58Df4 View in LinkedIn

GAME THEORY FOR REPRODUCTION including fertilization stealing, female mimicry, cuckoldry, precocociosness, hermaphrodites and early sexual maturity in a variety of fishes. https://lnkd.in/db7k5FK View in LinkedIn