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To: JoeProBono

This is so much like Global warming it’s scary. If they find a “big sperm”, it shows an “evolutionary advantage”. But humans have smaller sperm, and somehow we are at the top of the evolutionary ladder, so I guess having smaller sperm is better.

Or maybe it just USED to be that big sperm were good, and now smaller is better.


10 posted on 06/19/2009 6:15:50 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

You’re confused. The “big sperm” is an advantage for the shrimp.

Here’s an analogy: A long distance runner wants to improve his stamina. A sprinter wants to increase speed.

They both have different strategies to meet different goals.
Is one of them somehow fundamentally “better” ?


16 posted on 06/22/2009 12:00:22 AM PDT by MetaThought
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