It does, doesn't it. But the ancient Greeks were onto it, so it must have legs of some sort! ;-) It doesn't sound implausible to me that the remains of some previous ejac into a birth canal continue in said happy environment and then survive to mess with the developing egg in some chemical fashion, not strictly along the lines of fertilisation. Clearly sperm can survive longer than we imagined. But then we rarely see what we never EXPECT to see, so many things go undetected because they fall outside the preferentially setup "credibility zone".
Who are we, really? I mean if this does have legs then we'd better start looking at it seriously. Kim > On 4 Oct 2014, at 11:06 am, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I'll give an "extraordinary claims require extraordinary > evidence" to this. I would not be surprised if this idea goes away > with more studies, as it pretty much contradicts our theoretical > understanding of embryogenesis. > > Cheers > >> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:53:29AM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: >> >> Fly offspring can resemble their mothers' previous partner. >> Just rarely, a newspaper throws up something gobsmacking. From today's >> Sydney Morning Herald. Quoted here with absolutely no permission whatsoever. >> I'm sure this holds for humans as well. Flies and humans are both Turing >> emulable. This introduces a quasi-nondeterministic feature into human >> reproduction. I'm sure Bruno and JK will be pleased that the ancient Greeks >> were already speculating on this. >> >> Kim >> >> >> >> >> >> What if that sexual partner you'd rather forget remained forever a part of >> your life? >> >> Sydney scientists have shown for the first time that offspring can resemble >> their mother's previous sexual partner – in flies, at least. >> >> The research team, led by evolutionary ecologist Angela Crean, propose that >> sperm from a previous partner can penetrate a developing egg, influencing >> its growth despite being sired by another male. >> >> Dr Crean said her team were shocked when their experiments revealed they had >> discovered a new form of non-genetic inheritance. >> >> "We did a lot of follow-up studies to check our results," she said. >> >> First proposed in ancient Greece, the idea that offspring can inherit >> characteristics from their mother's previous mate – known as telegony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
