The New York Times > New York Region > Hawks May Be Awaiting the Stork: "Pale Male brought an offering of food - perhaps a pigeon or rat - each time he approached, she said.
Ms. Winn said that there may be a lesson in this for suitors: 'Always bring a gift.'"
Speaking of male and female behavior, Maureen Dowd further undermines the image of men by dissing the infamous 46th "Y" chromosome. She notes that "Research published last week in the journal Nature reveals that women are genetically more complex than scientists ever imagined, while men remain the simple creatures they appear."
But Ms. Dowd is denying credit to men for the role they play in propelling advantageous developments in the X chromosome, as a Nature article by Erika Check reports: "The X chromosome gets a chance to shine, or to fail miserably, each time it passes through the male line. Because a male carries only one copy, any new mutations are revealed in all their glory. And because successful males have the potential to sire very large numbers of children with multiple partners, mutations on the X chromosome that are advantageous to both sexes can spread rapidly through a population." This is only one reason why we should not enthuse about Dowd's pondering a future in which women may dispense with men.
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