
New York Times - Nov 11
...recent experiments with stem cells hint that women, not men, may eventually prove obsolete. need for the warmth and wealth of the comparatively massive female sex ... Japanese researchers said they could create robust little sperm cells in the lab, too but only if they began with the embryonic stem cells of a male animal....In theory, then, male starter cells could be used to make eggs and sperm, and those eggs and sperm could be mixed together to yield a new generation. ...why bother with girls, if you don't need mothers to lay those little egg cells in the first place? You could have robust diversity in the human gene pool without the need for pesky separate restrooms....