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Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?)

From:Jake X <starvingpoet@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 19:00
[t@'lisIn D@ 'stori,tElr\= r\oUt]:

> * Jake X said on 2003-05-20 21:20:01 +0200 > > "Joe" <joe@...> said on 2003-05-20: > > > But either way, a gay(male) couple could potentially make an XX baby
or an
> > > XY baby, as long as they had some kind of weird apparatus. > > > > I know. But given the existance of such an apparatus, they would > > increase the chance of having compared to the straights manyfold > > (25% per birth on a Punnet square). > > Say again? This does not compute. Having what, manyfold what?
If there were an apparatus by which two gay men could have a child, then on such an apparatus, the likelihood of the occurrance of a YY zygote is about one in four, compared to the one in several million among heterosexuals' children. Jake