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supermale [′sü·pər‚māl] (genetics) In Drosophila, a male with one X chromosome and three or more sets of autosomes, resulting in sterility and generally early death. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| If supermales reproduce, Nagler says, any offspring would invariably be male--skewing the sex ratio in a population. Bachelor Machines" was inspired by Duchamp's Large Glass and similar machines or machinelike men, such as those in Franz Kafka's short story "In the Penal Colony," Raymond Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique, and Alfred Jarry's Supermale le Surmale, and it had to do with a belief in eternal energy flow as a way to avoid death, as an erotics of life: the bachelor as rebel-model, as antiprocreation. A plant that tests out as a supermale in a greenhouse can prove even more of a stud in the wild. |
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