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EurekAlert have just published an article: Yale researchers shed light on evolutionary mystery: Origins of the female orgasm
The role of female orgasm, which plays no obvious role in human reproduction, has intrigued scholars as far back as Aristotle. Numerous theories have tried to explain the origins of the trait, but most have concentrated on its role in human and primate biology.
[...] Since there is no apparent association between orgasm and number of offspring or successful reproduction in humans, the scientists focused on a specific physiological trait that accompanies human female orgasm -- the neuro-endocrine discharge of prolactin and oxytocin -- and looked for this activity in other placental mammals. They found that in many mammals this reflex plays a role in ovulation.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @09:29AM
I assume that the misunderstanding comes from the fact that when the hands and feet are forming that there's webbing between the fingers and toes prior to those cells dying off during the later stages of development on those appendages.
Now it becomes clear how Francis ended up in the situation he has. A basic ignorance of mammalian reproductive biology could end up with an unexpected offspring. Let me guess, you can't get pregnant the first time? Now if only there was some larger, need we say, more Scientific? understanding of the mechanisms involved.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, the process of the creation of the individual is a recreation of the process of he creation of the phylum. Or the species. So it is not a mere matter of webs. Try endrocrinatic cell differention, or tachyon particle beams. You are way over your head, Francis!