But Just In Case You Thought Women Were Good and Men Were Evil

This is from a “members only” post on Medium.com by Clem Samson entitled “Scientists: Your Sole Purpose is Reproduction.”

Evolution tells a nasty tale on the female of the species as well. While all the genes in the sperm of the male go toward the healthy growth of the fetus, the genes on the mom’s side actually combat healthy growth of the fetus in order to prolong the healthy life of the female. It’s something called imprinted genetics. The gene for healthy fetal growth is methylated into silence if it comes from the mother, and activated if it comes from the father.

While we think of Moms as so nurturing, nature has encoded a little secret tattle tale that shows them to be interested in their own survival first. It’s as though the mother doesn’t want the baby to be “super” healthy — just healthy enough, in a way that causes the mother the least damage, whereas the father doesn’t give a crap about the mom’s health, and activates all the genes to make a little super human inside that uterus — no matter how much damage the little bastard might cause.

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