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[–]3MistersAndAMissy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You are talking about a developmental abnormally that affects 1 in 40,000 births and results in sterility.

The sry snippet doesn’t just float about like a butterfly and land where it likes as part of normal development.

It is the y that makes the guy. The sry Originates on a Y chromosome. It doesn’t develop from the x

[–]kardamom 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The sry snippet doesn’t just float about like a butterfly and land where it likes as part of normal development.

yes it does. it's a pretty standard way of mutation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover

[–]kwallio 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sry+ xx males are incredibly rare, stop acting like these incredibly rare translocation events are somehow normal biology. Crossing over is a part of normal biology but does not relocate genes from one chromosome to another, it causes allelic exchange on the same chromosome.

[–]3MistersAndAMissy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

‘As part of normal development’

[–]3MistersAndAMissy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mutation is the opposite of normal development 🙂