...the genetics that make girls fight like girls and boys fight like boys.

Hmm...

spent five years scoring fruit fly contests

Now that's dedication.

Strange...

The males rear up on their hind legs and lunge at each other in a bid to win the attentions of a dismembered female's head.

I don't suppose the dismembered female has much choice other than to pay attention, so I'm unclear as to why males need to compete for it.

...something extraordinary happened when Dr Kravitz took a single male
gene, known as "fruitless", that governs courtship and transferred it
to females. Instead of butting and shoving, they adopted the typically
male lunge. Males who had the same gene removed resorted to fighting
like females.

...thus relegation of the phrase, 'You hit like a girl.' into obsolescence.

The return of another long absent Clippie.
Welcome back, Fleuree

Thank you, Godfrey. I received the ClipMarks 'ClipWeek' digest in email today and it reminded me that I hadn't been here in a while.

I love ClipMarks. What goes on here is what I would consider a truly 'social' bookmarking process or experience. Other 'social bookmarking' sites pale in comparison.

Yeah, I was surprised to receive the "digest", maybe it will serve to bring others like yourself back to their senses.

Okay, now I'm totally feeling offended You guys telling me you woke up just because you got an email? Not good guys, not good.

I come here more often than the remarks above would make it sound. I'm usually just not as active a participant. The email was great, though.

I had a total system failure recently, and I'm having to reacquire all my favorite programs, one-by-one. I only just today installed Clipmarks for Firefox on this new computer. I should be out looking for interesting things to clip, but there are already so many good marks here, or coming in, that I'm just having fun commenting on those that catch my eye, saving a few marks others have clipped, and reading some funny and interesting stuff.

I'll be back again, soon.

welcome back fleuree, we're all here, still addicted, so you can join us anytime.

Always nice to see old clips resurface.

Godfrey Daniel said:
The return of another long absent Clippie.
Welcome back, Fleuree
...
Yeah, I was surprised to receive the "digest", maybe it will serve to bring others like yourself back to their senses.

Sweet irony.