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Pygmies Trade Height For Fecundity
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Pygmies Trade Height For Fecundity [podcast]
A sexy walk doesn't mean she's interested
Man, have I learned this the hard way, through multiple face slaps and restraining orders. Still, new research backs up what the courts have been telling me for years:
The sway of a woman's hips is not intended to impress men. So say researchers who have found that women have the sexiest walk during the part of the monthly cycle when they are least fertile. The finding implies that women use a variety of signals to advertise their fertility to men, using some signals to advertise when they are ovulating and others to conceal the fact.
And here I was, thinking strippers taught me everything I needed to know about evolutionary biology.
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Ladies, say goodbye to the physical presence of a Y chromosome -- Knock Yourself Up!
I'll just start with the words of famous scientist/philosopher/warrior king C. Willingford Mims: "There are now dozens of ways to make a baby. This is a perfect example of how science has changed landscape of the most fundamental human activity of all, next to eating and killing -- reproduction."
Writer Louise Sloan, fed up with holding out for a youngling through broken relationships, up and decided to become a single mom herself. She chronicles her fertility adventures in this "entertaining and emotional must-read for any single woman over 30 who thinks she might want kids someday." Um...awesome?
Louise Sloan was ready to have kids at age 28—but her partner wasn’t. Ten years later, after yet another birthday and yet another breakup, she realized she’d better get serious about single motherhood, before her fertility ran out. So began a heartbreaking and hilarious journey that led her to cyberstalking an anonymous sperm donor, running around town with liquid nitrogen tanks full of semen, being mistaken for a horse breeder, nearly getting another girl pregnant—and finally, to being called Mom.
