By "sexual difference" I mean that we don't reproduce asexually; that
every human being currently living inherits the characteristics of two
progenitors, one with "male" chromosomes and one with "female"
chromosomes. This strategy of division and recombination has
immunological payoffs: it enables the massively parallel processing of
information about environmental threats. In Burroughs' monosexed
utopia where beautiful boys reproduce endlessly through
parthenogenesis, any disease fatal to one would be fatal to all.
Dominic
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