Comments on: science news: Gender-related issues

By: benj

benj — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:44:21 +0000

Reptiles’ sex determinism is actually influenced by the ambient temperature shortly before cell division. I’m not aware of any studies done on human embryos (lawsuits all around pag nagkataon! hehe).

By: pen

pen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:05:51 +0000

I’m sorry, I might have been misleading. This does not say that there are fewer male than there are female. It just says that there are fewer male BIRTHS (this is to the order of several hundred thousands, by the way). I do not have the sex ratios at the moment (my bad research, sorry) but whatever they are, fewer man vs women is not what I meant.

Sorry again.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:40:56 +0000

In China where they prefer male, and abortion is legal, the trend is reverse - fewer female.

By the way, here’s something to cheer you up:
Video: Catholic Mother Scolding her Son upon learning that he is an atheist.

By: noems

noems — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:44:53 +0000

with regards to female waiting… i think people who can bear children ‘wait’ to have them, since they have a notion that the can have it anytime. (same as getting married).

and… i read in some books that you can ‘do something’ to have your prefered gender. something about female-gender-carrier sperms having longer life in the uterus versus their counterpart, but they ’swim slower’. figure it out.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:46:21 +0000

if you watch Children of Men film, yun ang nakakatakot na scenario ng possible future. imagine the youngest living person in the world is 18yrs old. Female cannot bear child anymore because of various reasons.

By: jie

jie — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:43:13 +0000

Naalala ko tuloy yung episode dati ng Sliders. Hehehe.