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[Allan Carr]

Nipples develop on fetuses before sexual dimorphism starts. This leads to
the assertion that we all start female. Lots of people think it's a weak
argument, but others strongly believe in it.


On Friday, May 6, 2016, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 5/5/16 1:54 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> Also, since all of us are conceived female, and some only become male when
>> a cascade effect of a cocktail of various enzymes works their
>> developmental
>> magic, there's not much difference if one adds one or two more chemicals
>> to
>> the dance.  We're all female to begin with.
>>
>
> That's not the way that I learned it. At least, 99.9% of the time, there's
> an egg and a sperm.  The sperm contains either an x chromosome or a y
> chromosome, not both.  The egg contains an x chromosome, one of two
> possibles (the mother has two matching ones, which divide to produce the
> egg.)  Conception occurs when the egg and the sperm meet: an X matches with
> a y, or with another x, so that if it happens to be a Y sperm, conception
> results in an XY (male) combination, and if it's an X sperm, you get an XX
> combination (female).  So from the moment there's a fertilized egg, it's
> either a girl or a boy, even if it's only one or a few cells, and you can't
> yet tell by looking until much later, unless you want to kill it and have
> an electron microscope handy.
>
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>


-- 
Allan Carr