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Pastimes : Evolution - Moderated

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From: 2MAR$1/8/2014 8:00:38 AM
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Is 'human' sex for fun or procreation?

How can man act more as a gentleman, may be by being more religious?

Please don't blame MEN they are handicapped and born with a problem. It is an inherent design defect, Men are designed prom...iscuous. Prisoners of their own' higher bandwidth,'* men Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems. Human sex is most peculiar in not being a social activity. We may share 98.8 percent of our genes with chimps and almost as many with gorillas; but when it comes to matters reproductive we are very different from either. Please read ' The Theory of Testis Size' is one of the triumphs of modern physical anthropology. Also read Diamond Jared The third Chimpanzee.



By weighing the testes of thirty-three primate species, British scientists identified two trends: species that copulate more often need bigger testes; and promiscuous species in which several males routinely copulate in quick sequence with one female need especially big testes (because the male that injects the most semen has the best chance of being the one to fertilize the egg). When fertilization is a competitive lottery, large testes enable a male to enter more sperm-tickets in the lottery.

'Here is how these considerations account for the differences in testis size among the great apes and humans. A female gorilla does not resume sexual activity until three or four years after giving birth, and she is receptive for only a couple of days a month until she becomes pregnant again. So even the successful male gorilla with a harem of several females experiences sex as a rare treat—if he is lucky, a few times a year. His relatively tiny testes are quite adequate for those modest demands. The sex life of a male orangutan may be somewhat more demanding, but not much. However, each male chimp in a promiscuous troop of many females lives in sexual nirvana, with nearly daily opportunities to copulate for a common chimp and several daily copulations for the average pygmy chimp. That, plus his need to outdo other male chimps in semen output if he is to fertilize the promiscuous female, explains his need for gigantic testes. We humans make do with medium-sized testes because the average man copulates more often than gorillas or orangutans but less often than chimps. In addition, the typical woman in a typical menstrual cycle does not force several men into sperm competition to fertilize her.'

''Humans copulate more often than gorillas and orangutans but less often than chimpanzees, and typically, men are not in sperm competition to fertilize a female. This explains our medium-sized testes. The testes of a 450-pound gorilla would dwarf the size of our own, but in actuality, this is completely untrue. Out of all the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans), gorillas and orangutans have the smallest testes. But the 100-pound chimpanzee makes our 1.5 ounce testes look like marbles compared to their own which are approximately 4 ounces.

No amount of moral/ religious legislation can change the problems of men, they need to discover themselves and act as a gentlemen this is the best 'we' can do.

* 'The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long, so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000 base pairs. number of sperm in a human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million.

I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells. Putting these together, the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s.

In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th of that. With 200,000,000 sperm cells, it's safe to assume that every base pair from the father is in at least one sperm, so you're looking at a total bandwith of 156 Mb/s, which is faster than most LANs. '

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