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ASHG: Fab facts

A quick sampling of three Fab Facts I learned today:

1. Neanderthals didn't do it with our ancestors (or so the latest genome studies claim).
2. Genealogy is the second most popular pasttime in America, after gardening, and the second most popular use of the Internet, after porn.
3. Tetrahymena thermophila - a single-celled organism better known as "pond scum" - has seven sexes.

What does it even mean for something to have seven sexes? I don't really know. But it sort of blows my mind.

Posted by Erika Check Hayden on October 12, 2006
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