Yeah, I'm a hypocrite. Just hope his Mom doesn't tell him vegetables are living things, too. It's a food chain thing...a viable excuse :(
(Kinda looks like some wad of chewed gum) It's an interesting article. I've often questioned if the brain has unlimited memory capabilities (barring any damage or medical condition)? This study gives an interesting, as well as logical, explanation. Accordingly, it apparently has unlimited storage, it just auto-adjusts. At least it is how I interpreted the article (and yes, my interpretations are not always correct.) Anyway, it is amazing how efficient our brain is in making these 'adjustments' while we are consciously unaware of it. (You see, this is why I've always wondered if our brain might not have 'a mind of it's own' :) so to speak, like some type of symbiotic relationship, perhaps one part us, one part something else! ;) In fact, this study would then make my blog (parts of it, at least) the remnants of opinions and topics my brain itself has possibly already re-examined/rethought and discarded. So, even if my brain has consciously reopinionated and deleted the original, it remains here, in my external memory bank, aka blog (journal/diary). I suppose it can be both a boon and an embarrassment, but one I can consciously either delete and/or rewrite/reword with newly acquired knowledge if I so choose. Which I don't. Oh, and every time I hear medulla oblongata (it's brain stem talk between pons and cords), for some reason it makes me think of hakuna matata. Dunno, guess it's just the 'a' and 'ata'. K, hopefully my brain is now going to delete that.....oh no it's not! apparently not.... Although this article states not, I've read others where it states that they are clones or half clones. It is a considered a case of in-breeding, though. Parthenogenesis I have more to say about this but it is storming here right now so I must go hide under the blankets until it passes.... K, sorry about that. I have a few sort of irrational fears, storms being one of them.
Anyway, back to the article. I wonder if this form of reproduction is not more common than previously known, especially when it comes to possible extinctions? Perhaps what could be considered the risks of mutations in in-breeding such as this, actually gave rise to new species, with the possibility of creating either greater survival skills, or if unadaptable, were simply not carried to term or did not survive very long? It makes one wonder if a human virgin birth could have been an extremely rare possibility? I just find it curious because, who'd a thought, other than creatures who basically have both sets of reproduction organs and basically fertilize themselves, an egg could develop without being fertilized by sperm. This is brilliant. Beautiful. Raw. I love it! (Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' in American Sign Language by Shelby Mitchusson) |
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