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John1956PA

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2. When I was in seventh grade, I was intrigued by these two statistics.

Reply to GreatGazoo (Original post)

Sun Oct 5, 2025, 12:45 PM

Oct 5

Our science class curriculum was well developed.

It struck me that the Y chomosome sperm's ability to reach the egg over that of the X chromosome sperm was nature's way to compensate for the fact that the average male lifespan is shorter than than the average female lifespan.

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Why Do Women Outlive Men? WaPo: Redundancy of XX vs XY Genetics [View all] GreatGazoo Oct 5 OP

I favor the traditional "Because men behave like idiots." usonian Oct 5 #1

jaw dropping quaint Oct 5 #5

Makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time. usonian Oct 5 #6

When I was in seventh grade, I was intrigued by these two statistics. John1956PA Oct 5 #2

Thanks. Very interesting. I'm glad to learn I'm an inferior being. My class, fat old, bald, white men... NNadir Oct 5 #3

Simply put: men are more likely to say, "Here, hold my beer!" than women are. ... marble falls Oct 5 #4

That is not what this research shows GreatGazoo Oct 6 #13

Very interesting hypothesis PatSeg Oct 5 #7

Why Women Live Longer forum on reddit irisblue Oct 5 #8

Warlike Behavior Deep State Witch Oct 5 #9

Go back far enough and humans were dying off in the early 20s. GreenWave Oct 5 #10

So dosage compensation is not fully effective fargone Oct 6 #11

revenge. LOL nt Javaman Oct 6 #12

I thought it was a very interesting and well designed study GreatGazoo Oct 6 #14