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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Cajetan Alvares <[email protected]> wrote: > > A fetus is female for 7 week, something triggers in the > womb that changes female fetus to male (in crocodiles it is the sun that > heats the sand, those in the shade are female). > This is nonsense. Gender in humans and other mammals is determined by the presence or absence of a Y chromosome. What happens is simply the normal course of embryonic development determined by the genes in the chromosomes. The crocodile is a completely different story. > > (In Hindu Astrology, it is written that if a pregnant woman > wants a boy to be born she should do puja at 7th week. This is an ancient > writing, I wonder how they knew this. When I first read this I said it >was > rubbish. The change of sex at 7th week as we know now is a fairly > recent 20th Cent. scientific discovery). > Hindu astrology is garbage. There is no connection between it and the science of biology. Cheers, Santosh
