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There's a perfectly logical, very probable, quite natural explanation, but the "researchers" claiming that their impossible, ridiculous, unfounded explanation can't possibly be wrong because..."muh politics"
I think it is far more likely the researchers screwed up here.
So in birds, sex chromosome arrangement is a reverse of what we have in humans. Their males are ZZ and the female is ZW. Which is why only males appear from this parthenogenesis.
So this is essentially Condors cloning themselves.
How does it work? I don't know how condors regulate their internal functions. As a human, I can control my muscles and my breathing, but I can't control, say, my digestion, my liver, my heart beat (except indirectly by either relaxing or doing stressful activities). How would a bird "flip the switch" and initiate asexual reproduction?
Hmm, all birds are dinosaurs. It’s been a long time since I last saw Jurassic Park, but wasn’t something like this a plot line in the film?
There's a perfectly logical, very probable, quite natural explanation, but the "researchers" claiming that their impossible, ridiculous, unfounded explanation can't possibly be wrong because..."muh politics"
There's a perfectly logical, very probable, quite natural explanation, but the "researchers" claiming that their impossible, ridiculous, unfounded explanation can't possibly be wrong because..."muh politics"
So in birds, sex chromosome arrangement is a reverse of what we have in humans. Their males are ZZ and the female is ZW. Which is why only males appear from this parthenogenesis.
> Which is why only males appear from this parthenogenesis Could you explain the mechanism? If the female has both chromosomes, why couldn't it produce offspring with both?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Sex_of_the_off...
Quite the insult to the male condors. They were housed with the females, and but the females biologically opted for cloning themselves instead.
Quite the insult to the male condors. They were housed with the females, and but the females biologically opted for cloning themselves instead.
[Condorman] did poorly at the box office. Disney reportedly lost $9.5 million on the picture. The disappointing financial returns from Condorman, along with three other flop films, contributed to Disney's poor financial performance in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorman