Althouse: "Environmental Variation Prompts More Sex."

October 15, 2010

"Environmental Variation Prompts More Sex."

I'll let you people make the jokes.

15 comments:

Unknown said...: Were any of the food enviroments fermented?

That usually helps.; 10/15/10, 2:00 PM
ricpic said...: "Tiny organisms" like to tingle as much as we do. If a change of scene livens things up for them that's just icing on the cake.; 10/15/10, 2:05 PM
garage mahal said...: I think that should be a biology tag.; 10/15/10, 2:08 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: So now climate change is a good thing?; 10/15/10, 2:16 PM
Anonymous said...: How can you tell if a rotifer has a woodie?; 10/15/10, 2:18 PM
traditionalguy said...: As a multi-cellular organism, I would like to volunteer my organism for use in doing necessarily exhausting studies into the depths of this science, but of course not for more than 4 hours per experiment.; 10/15/10, 2:40 PM
Rumpletweezer said...: Don't have time to leave a detailed comment right now. It's Friday afternoon. I need to pick up a supply of steaks and gruel for the weekend. More when I get back on Monday.; 10/15/10, 2:50 PM
888 said...: Does this explain homosexual behavior? I mean, in an aggressive sexual environment some men will feel a need for more masculinity in their sons, and women, more femininity in their daughters (the asexual urge to reproduce being geared towards identity, and in post-sexualized animals as more masculine and more feminine). Combine this with the social fears regarding childbirth, and one's mind naturally turns towards non-reproductive sexuality.; 10/15/10, 2:51 PM
RuyDiaz said...: So, if you take a trip, take it North-to-South, and not East-to-West?; 10/15/10, 2:52 PM
traditionalguy said...: All of this reproduction can wear a man out. Did I ever tell you that Genghis Khan has 15,000,000 living descendants. Now Ginghis was an organism that we can call the world's record reproducer.; 10/15/10, 2:59 PM
ndspinelli said...: This is how the good Sister's of St. Joseph explained the Immaculate Conception to us.; 10/15/10, 3:49 PM
The Drill SGT said...: I do know that strange beds prompt more sex.

perhaps it's that territorial marking instinct.; 10/15/10, 4:29 PM
Phil 314 said...: On the flip side day after day of hot days over 110 makes one pretty asexual.; 10/15/10, 6:02 PM
themightypuck said...: Needs a tag for evolution is true.; 10/15/10, 7:01 PM
traditionalguy said...: Where do they sell "Environmental Variation", and does it require a Dr.'s presciption"?; 10/16/10, 7:38 AM