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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <joe@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 20 May, 2003 01:38
Subject: Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven
outnumber the bearded?)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Ellis" <nihilsum@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 6:04 AM
> Subject: 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
> >
>
> 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).

Jake

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