Friday, February 24, 2006
If You've Met One Man . . .
"Genetically speaking, if you've met one man, you've met them all. We are, I hate to say it, predictable. You can't say that about women," said Duke University genome expert Huntington Willard, one of the authors of a study that was published in the magazine *Nature.* http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v434/n7031/abs/nature03479_fs.html.
The researchers learned that 15 percent -- 200 to 300 -- of the genes on the second X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inert, are in fact active, giving women a significant increase in genetic differentiation over men.
In brief, it seems that women are far more different from each other than originally supposed, and from men, according to Willard and his co-author, Laura Carrel, a molecular biologist at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Men are far more similar to each other.
See more at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2003-06/1056034017.
Now what are we going to do with that discovery, I wonder? The two books below offer some insights and joy.
1. Women: Finding Our Way
Young California girl Carmie dreams of being 20 pounds lighter and beautiful. Her oh-so-old and clinically depressed mother had a secret past -- as a Malibu surfer. Carmie's coming of age begins when
she and her girlfriend see her mother riding the waves. Girls of any age will love this unexpectedly heartwarming, funny story by my friend Leah Komaiko, author of the Annie Bananie books. *Malibu Carmie*
comes out in May but you can read more about it now at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385731728/qid=1111073431/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8877084-6679363?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
2. As a woman, haven't you been bullied, deceived, or otherwise the victim of harmful behavior from another adult woman, or a bystander to it? For insights about how to respond, another friend and extraordinary writer, Cheryl Dellasega http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Cheryl%20%20Dellasega/102-3066009-1536109 wrote *Mean Girls Grown Up: Adult Women Who Are Still Queen Bees, Middle Bees, and Afraid-to-Bees*.
She's also the author of *Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years*.
The researchers learned that 15 percent -- 200 to 300 -- of the genes on the second X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inert, are in fact active, giving women a significant increase in genetic differentiation over men.
In brief, it seems that women are far more different from each other than originally supposed, and from men, according to Willard and his co-author, Laura Carrel, a molecular biologist at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Men are far more similar to each other.
See more at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2003-06/1056034017.
Now what are we going to do with that discovery, I wonder? The two books below offer some insights and joy.
1. Women: Finding Our Way
Young California girl Carmie dreams of being 20 pounds lighter and beautiful. Her oh-so-old and clinically depressed mother had a secret past -- as a Malibu surfer. Carmie's coming of age begins when
she and her girlfriend see her mother riding the waves. Girls of any age will love this unexpectedly heartwarming, funny story by my friend Leah Komaiko, author of the Annie Bananie books. *Malibu Carmie*
comes out in May but you can read more about it now at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385731728/qid=1111073431/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8877084-6679363?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
2. As a woman, haven't you been bullied, deceived, or otherwise the victim of harmful behavior from another adult woman, or a bystander to it? For insights about how to respond, another friend and extraordinary writer, Cheryl Dellasega http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Cheryl%20%20Dellasega/102-3066009-1536109 wrote *Mean Girls Grown Up: Adult Women Who Are Still Queen Bees, Middle Bees, and Afraid-to-Bees*.
She's also the author of *Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years*.
