Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations

Re:Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations by microcolonel on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:02AM (#22967478)

Colour vision being the classic example of something preserved or enhanced in females due to coding on the X chromosome. This helps women, for the most part, completely avoid red-green colourblindness.

Coincidentally when searching to make sure I wasn't saying this the wrong way around, I was presented with this weird sexist propaganda[0] that only works because of the weird way people tend to think about these facts: you only acknowledge it if you can make it sound like women are better at everything and make no tradeoffs.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/19/the-better-hal...

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Re:Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations by SamReidHughes on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:59AM (#22969435)

Greater male variance in humans has nothing to do with the article, or general discussion about the evolutionary benefits of sexual reproduction, because what's true of some categories of animal, like mammals, is not true of birds and other animals (whose sex chromosomes work differently -- female birds have greater variance, last I checked).

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Re:Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations by microcolonel on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:04PM (#22969519)

> Greater male variance in humans has nothing to do with ... the the evolutionary benefits of sexual reproduction

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184

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Re:Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations by SamReidHughes on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:14PM (#22969669)

Okay, but it's not male-specific.

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