ariels@mako.UUCP (Ariel Shattan) (08/03/84)
Donald Graft says: > >Suppose their was one head and two sets of genitalia, one male and one >female. Which set goes with the head??? How would you decide? With repect to giving the genitalia to the more "agressive" baby. This situation will NEVER arise in the human species, since Siamese twins are identical genetically. Only fraternal twins can be male/female. Identical twins are ALWAYS male/male or female/female. (fraternal twins can be same-sex, too, but they are not identical genetically). As to the genitalia going to the more agressive baby, the other baby is genetically male, too. If it lives, the doctors will have to give it sex change treatments to make it as female as possible, or else it'll go through life as a boy without genitalia: a eunich. I'll bet it could get a job with the Vienna Boys' Choir, though. Ariel Shattan ..!tektronix!mako!ariels
brahms@trwspp.UUCP (08/07/84)
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>> >Suppose their was one head and two sets of genitalia, one male and one
>> >female. Which set goes with the head??? How would you decide?
>>
>> With repect to giving the genitalia to the more "agressive" baby.
>>
>> This situation will NEVER arise in the human species, since Siamese
>> twins are identical genetically. Only fraternal twins can be
>> male/female. Identical twins are ALWAYS male/male or female/female.
>> (fraternal twins can be same-sex, too, but they are not identical
>> genetically).
How about hermaphrodites? I seem to remember that they usually keep the
female genitalia.
-- Brad Brahms
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