Scientists Discover The First Known Algae Species With Three Distinct Sexes

www.sciencealert.com ^ | 13 JULY 2021 | JACINTA BOWLER

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

“See!?!?1 More than two genders is natural, BIGOT!”

I’ve said it before: if we’re going to point to the animal kingdom as justification for our behavior, then you won’t mind if I start flinging feces around, will you?

Antifa does it....................

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The defense rests, your honor.

[Ezekiel]

An algae explosion a few hundred million years ago is thought to have been what allowed all human and animal life to evolve.

The Luck of the Irish strikes again! What's old is new and all of that.

The word comes from ‘luc,’ a shortening of ‘gheluc,’ meaning “happiness, good fortune.” The word was probably introduced into the English language in the 15th century as a gambling term.

Chondrus crispus— commonly called Irish moss or carrageen moss (Irish carraigín, "little rock")—is a species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coast of Europe and North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrus_crispus

At the top of that page is says

"Sea moss" redirects here.

Sea moss? Must have been a little Gaelic humor.

Speaking of the name Jacob, remember why and where he was dubbed "Israel". He named the place Puniel because he saw the face of God and survived to tell the tale.

Loaned into English in the 15th century (probably as a gambling term) from Middle Dutch luc, a shortened form of gheluc (“good fortune”), whence Modern Dutch geluk. Middle Dutch luc, gheluc is paralleled by Middle High German lücke, gelücke (modern German Glück). The word occurs only from the 12th century, apparently first in Rhine Frankish. Perhaps from a Frankish *galukki. The word enters standard Middle High German during the 13th century, and spreads to English and Scandinavian in the Late Middle Ages. Its origin seems to have been regional or dialectal, and there were competing German words such as gevelle or schick, or the Latinate fortune from Latin fortuna. Its etymology is unknown, although there are numerous proposals as to its derivations from a number of roots.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/luck

And of course there was the time when Paul lamented that people would not endure sound doctrine:

2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

And get this,

The term deadpan first emerged as an adjective or adverb in the 1920s, as a compound word combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face).

Slang?

פְּנוּאֵל Pᵉnûwʼêl, pen-oo-ale'; or (more properly,) פְּנִיאֵל Pᵉnîyʼêl; from H6437 and H410; face of God; Penuel or Peniel...

Wise men say that the more you know, the more you don't know...

But then Elvis ("The King") said that wise men say only fools rush in.

And Ricky Nelson informed that fools rush in where wise men never go, but wise men never all in love so how are they to know.

If only people hadn't killed the prophets (defined them out of existence), or stoned those who were sent to them.

That's because last thing they wanted to hear was:

I'm so glad we made it, So glad we made it.
You've gotta gimme some lovin'...

[G Larry]

News Flash!

Algae don't have mental disorders and haven't been molested.

[G Larry]

So, we've been pronouncing it wrong all this time?

Algae = 'Al-gay'

[left that other site]

Scientists in Massachusetts have long known about this. In fact, just north of Boston, there is an entire COUNTY named after the sex in the middle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Massachusetts

Oh...it was named after someplace in ENGLAND?

Never mind. :-)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So, they really have “proven” that those claiming to be the third sex are really the scum of the earth!

[Paal Gulli]

Note the use of the correct noun, sex.

Sex is a biological distinction.
Gender is a grammatical distinction that has absolutely Sweet Fanny Adams to do with sex.

[ALASKA]

So Lysol if will get rid of algae, then....

[grey_whiskers]

An algae explosion a few hundred million years ago is thought to have been what allowed all human and animal life to evolve, and all told there's only about one and a half billion years between us in terms of evolution.

So, like, an average trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

[Vaduz]

Sounds like some scientists in the lab have been playing with the blender again.

[californian by choice]

now it turns out that there are transsexual algae, I wonder if they were rainbow color

[BroJoeK]

Tell It Right: "Meanwhile the Christian geeks always point to the Cambrian Explosion, an event about 500 million years ago in which 50% to 80% of all known phyla suddenly sprang up in the archaeological record within a brief million years (brief if the expectation is that such speciation would take billions of years)."

First of all, we're talking about animal phyla, which make up about 2/3 of all phyla including plants, fungi & other non-animals.

Second:

"Since most animal species are soft-bodied, they decay before they can become fossilised.
As a result, although 30-plus phyla of living animals are known, two-thirds have never been found as fossils.[21]"

In other words: it's impossible to say from the fossil record when those 2/3 of phyla first appeared.

Third, the "Cambrian Explosion" is poorly defined and can include up to 100 million years -- from 600 mya to 500 mya:

"The “Cambrian explosion” is a poorly-defined term that refers to a period of time some 600–500 million years ago (“Geon 5” [Hofmann, 1990]) during which the biosphere, as reflected in the eukaryotic fossil record, underwent a great expansion.
Most popularly, the appearance in the fossil record of the first undoubted animals has, especially since the critical studies of Preston Cloud (e.g., 1968), been regarded as truly documenting the evolutionary origins of the animals.
Nevertheless, this straightforward view has rightly been regarded skeptically, for several reasons.
The first of these is that the apparent very rapid appearance of taxa in the record must inevitably imply a period of cryptic evolution before this point (Dawkins, 1998; Cooper and Fortey, 1998).
Secondly, high-profile “molecular clock” estimates of the timing of splits between the various phyla have suggested that animal lineages actually diverged up to 800 Ma or more before their appearance in the fossil record (e.g.,Runnegar, 1982; Wray et al., 1996; see review in Fortey et al., 2002).
This sort of discrepancy clearly demands resolution."

Another report says this:

"In the Cambrian explosion, larger animals with hard parts (i.e. animals which are more readily fossilized) became incredibly diverse but much of their success is due to the evolution of their basic body plan in animals of the Precambrian."

Here is one visualization of the appearances of different body plans pre-Cambrian, Cambrian and post-Cambrian:

Bottom line: "Cambrian Explosion" refers only to animals' fossilized hard body parts appearing in geological strata covering many tens of millions of years.
It says nothing about evolution of soft-bodied animals in the eons preceding or following the Cambrian Explosion.

[Flaming Conservative]

Pond scum?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. Al-Gay?

[Red Badger]

It ain’t easy being GREEN.......................

[Salamander]

Yet you can still only buy shirts in male or female sizes.

[rdl6989]

I just knew this would be a fun thread.

[NetAddicted]

Thanks. That is what I’ve been saying since gender was used to replace the word sex. The only use of gender I had seen prior was in NY high school French classes.
I say gender is an example of Newspeak, from Orwell’s 1984.

[Rebelbase]

Bisexual isn’t good enough anymore. Now you have to be trisexual.