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Walnut Trees’ 40-Million-Year-Old Secret: How They Switch Genders Every Season
Scitech Daily ^ | January 06, 2025 | Andy Fell, University of California - Davis

Posted on 01/06/2025 5:56:01 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

How fashionable.


41 posted on 01/06/2025 7:09:48 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Red Badger

Tranny trees!


42 posted on 01/06/2025 7:12:10 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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To: Red Badger

Notice something interesting...

The word gender is used in the headline.

But the word sex is used in the article.

That’s not an accident, I’ll bet...


43 posted on 01/06/2025 7:12:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: null and void

Proof that Trannys are nuts!...........


44 posted on 01/06/2025 7:23:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

These perverts are trying to get Walnut Tree Story Hour in your kids’ schools!!! Wake up, people!!!


45 posted on 01/06/2025 7:26:12 AM PST by Rastus
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To: Red Badger

Funny how he has his hand stuck into the crotch of the tree...


46 posted on 01/06/2025 7:36:01 AM PST by RightResponse (The unhinged Left redefines Mental Illness...)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
“Scientists” desperately trying to find gender swapping examples in nature to normalize the concept of such things in humans.

CORRECT.

47 posted on 01/06/2025 7:40:17 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: RightResponse

Maybe he does more that just hug trees.............😏


48 posted on 01/06/2025 7:45:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
Tell the trannies -- You will never be a walnut tree.
49 posted on 01/06/2025 7:49:37 AM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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To: Red Badger; All

I’m not sure the science dudes are trying “desperately” to find some evidence of nature performing gender reassignment as they are just saying - this is an awesome thing. This world is stunning in its beauty and variety.

Many plants in these times do not need gender anymore because mankind has been diddling with them for so long.

Er, that’s probably not exactly right - they still have genders but most plants can produce BOTH pollen and seeds all by themselves. (Don’t lecture me about growing pot, please - I already know.)

Also: Walnuts are delicious and nutritious and the wood is quite valuable.

When I saw this piece it made me think - however - of various weirdos I’ve chatted with online over the years who claimed that they were great magicians and that “a time is coming” when every human will be able to switch genders just by doing a little spell or whatever and I was like “LOL!! If you could do something like that by magic, why not just make yourself the emperor of the world and waste everyone you don’t like and stop worrying about something so insignificant!” (Sometimes I wonder if maybe I’m too hung up on being able to get rid of some people just by thinking about it....... OH WELL LOVE ME AS I AM!!! I WASN’T TALKING ABOUT YOU ANYWAY!)

So then I would get a scolding about how it was “everyone’s” sort of like JOB to make sure that if someone wants to change from a man into a woman (and back again, and then back again after that! like this one dude I met once) then we should do everything possible to help him. (It’s mostly guys that seem interested in this - I’ve never met a woman who talked about wanting to be a man, except for me when I was a kid.) I could tell a lot of these guys were just having like violent fantasies about being able to go into the women’s locker room and wreak havoc, right? “Wait until she finds out I’m NOT REALLY A GIRL! HA HA HA!!” “Bruh, I’m way ahead of you, I’ve got like THREE ACCOUNTS on this lesbo dating site!!! The hot lesbos are falling all over me!”

Moving on: I would listen to this lecture and then point out that having two genders in one body is like a disease and very undesirable and that people who are “born that way” are essentially disabled - I would also point out that parthenogenesis (some very simple life forms can indeed change from male to female and vice versa, like this walnut tree and some protozoa, fish, reptiles, etc) is not desirable, really, either, because it’s usually a reaction to some sort of environmental stress. “Oh, no, all the males couldn’t stop fighting with each other and now they’re all DEAD or incapacitated! What shall we do, my reptilian sisters!” “Some of us must change into males!” *cries of dismay*

I would say, “So, you’re fantasizing about the day that you will be as versatile as an amoeba!” and again point out that if you could do that with magic, you could just as easily obtain whatever the heck you wanted to s3x you up and go for it. It’s like using magic to put on your boots. JUST PUT THE DAMN BOOTS ON, ALREADY, AND GET GOING.

You probably know more now about “nature’s gender reassignments” than you want to! Have a wonderful day! xoxo


50 posted on 01/06/2025 7:57:54 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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To: Mastador1

LOL!!!


51 posted on 01/06/2025 7:59:32 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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To: Scarlett156

>>>>(Don’t lecture me about growing pot, please - I already know.)<<<<

😉................................


52 posted on 01/06/2025 8:01:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Well....humans don’t have that mechanism. Next attempt at trans-speciation coming soon.
Might as well think you’re like a walnut if you are some kind of nut anyway.


53 posted on 01/06/2025 8:03:01 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder tro find. )
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To: Scarlett156

When I saw this piece it made me think - however - of various weirdos


Tough times is the only cure for what ails us.


54 posted on 01/06/2025 8:06:32 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Red Badger

Ya know, it was those wonderful religious guys that discovered all this in the monastery, too. They were like, “Wow, this plant is a male! And THIS one is the same species but it’s a FEMALE!! WOW!!!” and Nob was like “Yes, you have learned one of Nature’s secrets!” and they performed experiments, and came to know more about agriculture than even royalty - and then people would accuse them of being sorcerers and so on.

People are always like “Religious people are SO STUPID because they don’t believe in evolution!” and it was the spiritual life in fact that gave us many, many valuable scientific discoveries.


55 posted on 01/06/2025 8:09:18 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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To: Red Badger

“It’s pretty atypical to maintain variation over such a long time,” Groh said. In this case, the two flowering types balance each other. If one flowering type becomes more common in the population than the other, the less common type gains a mating advantage, so it becomes more common. This pushes the system to a 50:50 equilibrium and maintains genetic variation.


note two flowering types resulting in 50/50 equilibrium. Wonder how that happens.

Every flower is one or the other. They do not change from one to the other.


56 posted on 01/06/2025 8:10:01 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Tough times is the only cure for what ails us.”

Excellent quote! :D

Yeah I always think that: The human race has WAYYYYYY too much time on its hands lately.


57 posted on 01/06/2025 8:10:41 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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To: Scarlett156

IIRC, Mendel was a monk..........


58 posted on 01/06/2025 8:12:43 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: enumerated

Que up the biology of seahorses.......


59 posted on 01/06/2025 9:31:19 AM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: Red Badger

If you show me a human that organically drops its penis for a vagina and then the vagina for the penis on some sort of natural cycle I’ll change my position that humans are not gender fluid.


60 posted on 01/06/2025 9:35:15 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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