![]() ![]() Honorable Mention: Every Cheerleading Team to have Experienced Bad Press for Getting Drunk and Posting Naughty Pictures. Here is our list of the 20 most scandalous cheerleaders in sports history. But while some may be this and that, all of them are smoking hot. Thinking about it more accurately, a few of them are really bad girls. For many of them, the cheerleading gig is just that, a gig, or part time job.Īll issues aside, I don't want to tiptoe around this for too long, yes, some of them are bad girls. So much that it is a minor issue in the media as these wonderful ladies try to get their pay up to a decent level. The game can function without them, but they absolutely add something pretty wonderful. With all that said however, they aren't a necessity in the NFL for example. I guess what I'm trying to say is that much like the icing on the proverbial cake, cheerleaders take a sporting event and make it so much more via the addition of gorgeous, fit, gyrating women. Similarly, they are like a beer on a Saturday night while watching a UFC event. They are like a cold beer on a Sunday afternoon for NFL football. In spite of his sometimes over-anthropomorphized chromosomes, this is an entertaining read, rewarding to readers yearning to understand the human beast.The concept of cheerleading is a pretty amazing one. This is a refreshing contrast to the plodding certainties of the refereed publications of the academics, hedged about with all the required caveats and cautions. I can't wait.Probably most unusual for a book of this sort, is that Sykes, a distinguished scientist, lays on some pretty far out, half-baked, probably wrong, but testable ideas about such things as the origin of homosexuality, the war between the sexes from the perspective of the Y and mitochondrial chromosomes, and even the possible future course of the evolution of the Y to its ultimate demise. The stories of the Vikings, the Polynesians, the Great Khan, and conquest by the Spaniards in South America are all covered here and the new insights revealed by their Y chromosomes gives a tantalizing glimpse of those still to come from other parts of the world. But mostly it is the story of the application of modern genetics to the varied populations of the world, the story of their migrations and conquests, and the struggle of the Y chromosome to survive.Sykes' distinct approach is to apply some relatively simple molecular probes to Y chromosomes obtained from many individuals in a variety of populations on a fairly big scale, rather than the other important task, carried on by a myriad of scientists, of trying to understand all the biological minutiae of a single prototypical human.His finding the Y chromosome inherited today by about 500,000 descendants of the founder of the MacDonald, MacDougalls and the MacAlisters Clans is quite fun to read, and the similar tale of his discovering the Sykes clan reveals something about how curiosity driven science can be so deeply satisfying. There are stories about his coworkers, including the giant William Hamilton, who probably is second only to Darwin in developing the theory of evolution. ![]() And Sykes tale of observing his own Y chromosome, carrying out the manipulations with his own hands, is described in some detail. There are history lessons, such as the one about the lamentable foul-ups of the microscopists trying to count the chromosomes. It contains his personal story of unraveling some of these puzzles himself, told in an a lively and amusing manner, sure to hold the reader's interest. There are plenty of new ideas here, coupled with a rather informative short course on the twentieth century's additions to Darwin's theory of evolution.This is not a dry recitation of the facts, by any means. Sykes has done it again with this follow-up of his "Seven Daughters of Eve." "Adam's Curse" is a terrific survey of the latest findings on human genetics as told through the Y chromosome, inherited exclusively through one's father.
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