i’m a biologist by profession so my first instinct was to google scholar this and read the primary papers. except that laziness suddenly took over. haha!

i did find out from some recent (?) literature that sperm contributes half the genetic material in a fertilized egg… and then some. apparently, our wiggly friends also hold some very significant, albeit transient, information (in the form of molecules called RNA) that may tell the fertilized egg how to develop. this tells me that nature will not so easily dispose of males. and just parthenogenesis will not contribute to jazzing up the gene pool–evolutionarily undesirable.

but i may be wrong, and the Revelations-esque picture you painted may come true in the end. fire raining down from the skies i can handle; a man-less world i cannot. hopefully, i will be dead by then. if not i’ll be sure to keep a shot of arsenic within easy reach.