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

Jake X wrote:

>I've always made jokes about being a YY baby, which would
>only be possible as a child of a gay couple, though the child
>would be very messed up for lacking necessary genes found
>on the X chromosome.  A YY would be a real hunk though...
I don't recall the exact details of what I was told in high school biology,
but I think it was that the very rare YY is either hydrocephalic or
anencephalic and dies almost immediately.

M

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