1.26.2009

Things I'm Learning in Homeschool


*Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics was a monk!! Cool plug for the great creative work of unmarried, childless people.


*The whiptail lizard lays eggs without mating. The offspring are exact clones of the mother. There are male and female whiptails and they do engage in pseudosexual behavior that plays a role in reproduction but they don't actually mate.


*"The Maternal Immune Hypothesis" is the idea that the more sons a mother has, the more adept her body becomes at feminizing the male fetus so that her body does not release antigens to destroy the foreign body.

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