At 12:43 PM 5/23/01 -0400 David Hobby wrote:
>> The one problem I see with this set-up is that I don't see how males
>> benefit evolutionarily from sparking asexual reproduction. I would
>> imagine that males would become more and more indifferent to
>> sparking...
>
> This is a part that I don't really buy. Certainly, males
>should not expend a lot of energy chasing women in Winter, since they
>have no chance of reproducing at that time. But that they need to
>be "coaxed"? I mean, how hard is sparking, anyway?
Hard enough that on this planet we had to invent a drug to help millions of
men out with it.
;-)
JDG - Who wonders, in the realm of Brin predictions, can we give him credit
for predicting the advent of Viagra?
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