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Discover's headline and use of the Terminator photo analogy doesn't make sense. The experimental group of sea monkeys from the past were the males. The health-at-risk females were from the present ('future')

Sex with males from the past is hazardous to females' health.

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If you look at graph, both future and past male sea monkeys were disastrous to female's health.

"Rode and his colleagues gathered cysts from layers that formed in 1985, 1996, and 2007. ... They had females mate with males from their own time, as well as from the other years. For example, females from 1996 could mate with males from 2007 and 1985."

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