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Originally posted by Not Me
A human being has 46 chromosomes. A sperm only has 23. AT least the normal sperm only have 23. Every now and then one has 24 and the child that results is way fucked up. Trisomies are something I would classify as a severe birth defect.
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When Holmes wrote that the Constitution does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, he might also have referred to particular definitions of what is human based on the number of chromosomes, except that the science you describing hadn't come along yet.
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