Multiple 'mates' improves offspring: study

[Jax]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/multiple-mates-improves-offspring-study/story-e6frgcjx-1226710531347

 

 

 

WOMEN could improve the quality of their offspring by mating with multiple partners, researchers say.

Experts from four universities examined the behaviour of an ancestor of the domestic chicken and found that mating with different males helped females produce offspring that are more resistant to disease.

The findings could be applied to other animals - including humans.

“Our research has shown that the females don't need to choose between males to produce the most healthy offspring,†said David S Richardson, from the University of East Anglia.

“Rather by mating with multiple males, they allow their internal choice mechanism to favour the most genetically different sperm.

“This could be the case in other animals, including humans, however the practicality of testing this in mammals would be very difficult, and obviously impossible in humans for ethical reasons.â€

 

 

[frogesque]

Hmmm . . . HIV anyone?

[DAVID SNOW]

Experts LOL

 

 Yes the beautiful elegant strong graceful successful swan has got it so wrong for so many thousands of years.

[be cause]

 so it's   Do.. Do .. Do .. The Funky Chicken  ..