Thursday, April 28, 2005
Sex, Fungus and Frogs
First I found this story about fungus mating.
But then I ran into this story.
Just a couple of comments. First I think the people are getting way ahead of themselves if they think fungus sex is going to tell us anything really important about human sexuality.
Secondly, not that I have any experience, at least not that you know about, but instead of checking the frog parts for virus' and bacteria, they might want to check for gunpowder residue. Firecrackers...
Members of the same sex of a pathogenic fungal species can mate and produce offspring, scientists report in the April 21 issue of Nature.I smiled and the post almost wrote itself -- finally an explanation for the exploding frog story, which originally posited that a fungus was responsible for the phenomena.
But then I ran into this story.
Berlin has ruled out the possibility that it is a fungus that made its way from South America....Sigh...there goes that punchline.
Just a couple of comments. First I think the people are getting way ahead of themselves if they think fungus sex is going to tell us anything really important about human sexuality.
Secondly, not that I have any experience, at least not that you know about, but instead of checking the frog parts for virus' and bacteria, they might want to check for gunpowder residue. Firecrackers...
