Posted on 10/08/2009 7:56:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers from Imperial College London believe that when species become asexual they could be on their way to extinction... P. marneffei is a fungus which causes disease in people with damaged immune systems, such as HIV/AIDS patients, and it is only found in parts of south-east Asia... Dr Bill Hanage, one of the paper's authors, from Imperial College London, adds: "By being asexual, P. marneffei is not only limiting its ability to adapt, it may be at risk of becoming extinct. If it is unable to adapt to new environments, it will be unable to adapt to changes in its current environment. While becoming asexual may provide short term advantages to a species, in the long term, they are likely to end up in evolution's ultimate dustbin -- extinction."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
I was. Forgot my /s. I do that a lot.
parsy, who says thanks for picking up on it
lizavetta, who after several more glasses of Zin will be unable to respond
I like that exit sign in association with Obama there. Someone should put the word EXIT in place of OBEY in those stalinist Obama posters.
I’m so glad you said that! Time for my valium.
parsy, who is about to be happy
lizavetta, who is bummed that teleportation of pharmaceuticals has yet to be perfected
I have a life time supply. Was supposed to use them for my shoulder but seldom did because I liked them. Now use about 3 or 4 a month as needed. But I twisted my knee so I have taken one a night the last few nites. I have about a 15 to 20 year supply left at that rate.
parsy, who was afraid of getting hooked
I know what you mean, Parsy.
lizavetta, who has discovered that parsy is her new best friend
LOL! I didn’t mention my hydrocodone stash. Popped some kind of thingie muscle on the outside of my knee last year and was like so bad I had to use a walker for like two months. Humiliating, but I couldn’t put any weight on it even with knee brace. My kids were calling me gramps and asking if I needed Polident. (My old basketball knee) So I had a prescription but I only took when the pain was just so bad I couldn’t sleep.
parsy, who has known people who overdid the stuff and were taking 50-60 per day
lizavetta, who has just discovered current husband is seriously lacking and new flame parsy is totally hot....
LOL! I like your world view! I keep the stuff hidden so when I do have friends over (of the female sort) I don’t have to worry about them falling in love.
Dr. Pepper and Parrot Bay Rum is safe.
parsy, who is scared of women in the first place
That’s what happened to all the members of the Shaker sect. They all took a vow of chastity and declined new converts.
lizavetta, who needs to educate parsy on the joys of pomegranate martinis....
:’) The Shakers found it more and more difficult to find converts. The last male Shaker died around 1960, and the small body of remaining female Shakers voted to close the covenant. :’)
Yeah, really. More like “Lack of Sex Could Be a Signpost to Being Down on One’s Luck, Claim Researchers”. ;’)
Asexual=extinct makes perfect sense.
Homosexual=extinct too.
What would we do without researchers?
Doesn’t it bug you that these overeducated twerrps thing of us as dumb?
You misspelled “think”.
;’) ;’) ;’)
Hey, you give me a setup like that...
But yeah, it does bug me, although I try to see the irony in it.
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