Female Supremacy Articles - Page 26

Screen 8 of 31

Assuming that the minor technical problems of gene damage during cloning can soon be overcome, and that legal constraints will in time be removed—assumptions that seem reasonable by any standard—it is possible that the women of our species will soon have the overall choice of doing with very few men, or with none at all. If, in the mean time, they can prevent males from destroying any environment in which to survive, they might be forgiven if they choose to follow the path that has already been pioneered by the bdelloid rotifers. Attempts to understand maleness or to redress its difficulties will then become entirely academic.

References

1. Maynard Smith J. The Evolution of Sex. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1978.

2. Dawkins R. The Ancestor's Tale: a pilgrimage to the dawn of life. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2004.

3. Ridley M. The Red Queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature. London, Viking, 1993.

4. Judson O. Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: the definitive guide to the evolutionary biology of sex. London, Chatto and Windus, 2002.

5. Lane N. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.

6. Kraemer S. The fragile male. Br Med J 2000; 321:1609–12.

The sturdier sex? -- Study by Pittsburgh scientists finds female stem cells work better

Biology News Net