Recently, the geneticist J. Craig Venter showed that the entire genetic material of an organism can be synthesized by a machine and then put into what he called an \u201cartificial cell.\u201d This was actually a bit of press-release hyperbole: Mr. Venter started with a fully functional cell, then swapped out its DNA. In doing so, he unwittingly demonstrated that the female component of sexual reproduction, the egg cell, cannot be manufactured, but the male can.<\/p>\n
When I explained this to a female colleague and asked her if she thought that there was yet anything irreplaceable about men, she answered, \u201cThey\u2019re entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gentlemen, let\u2019s hope that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n
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