Nature is patient, not efficient.
Also our main light source gives us cancer.
Also our main light source gives us cancer.
I know, I know, the females say size don't matter, but I wonder if them scientist guys measured those flour beetles dicks and I'll just bet the one's who got lucky were the ones packing. They said disease resistance and natural competion, natural benfits etc., but us guys all know what's REALLY goin' on. WE all know what's what.
Males: who needs them? It’s a valid question—the existence of the male sex is a real scientific inquiry.
On a survival-of-the-species level, males are basically only needed to provide sperm. In light of that, sex seems like a pretty inefficient way of reproducing in comparison to asexual reproduction. Half the offspring produced are also incapable of directly bearing future generations, and parents have to dilute their genes for the pleasure. Not to mention the hassle of finding a suitable mate in the first place.
So why has evolution allowed two-parent reproduction to persist when it seems so inefficient? Why is sex still a thing? Why don’t we just have females who can reproduce by themselves?
In a paper in Nature, biologists suggest a solution to the mystery: the existence of males and of sex allows for sexual selection, which helps keep a species healthy so it doesn’t go extinct. They tested this hypothesis in populations of beetles.
Sexual selection helps to purge out ‘bad genes’ from a population.
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Sexual selection is a type of natural selection whereby members of a species (usually male) compete to reproduce with others (female)—think peacocks showing off. The imbalance there is borne broadly from the fact that females usually need to invest more effort into reproducing and are more limited in terms of how often they can try—though the details naturally differ among species.
Read More: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-males-exist
I have yet to meet a female plumber and I have a feeling I prob wouldn't want to.....yeehaw
a human can herm??edit. Naturally.
she/he was born that way, didn't suddenly herm half ways through life.View Image
A woman with both male and female sex organs lived as a man for over 40 years because her parents didn't tell her she was born a hermaphrodite for two decades.
Caroline Kinsey has lived almost all her life as a man as her parents hid her intersex medical condition from her until she was 19.
She underwent surgery as an infant and was brought up as Carl John Baker.
But after years of mockery at school and assuming that 'everybody's body looked like hers', her parents finally revealed the truth about her condition when she was 19.
After a short, failed marriage to a woman and a period suffering depression, Caroline decided to dress as a woman two years ago and now wants to take on a permanent 'female persona'.
She revealed her condition was kept from her 'for as long as possible' by her parents on medical advice and because her mother and father 'didn't know any better'.
She said: 'From being young I have always known I was different. I could never quite put my finger on why.
'A doctor told my mother they should deny me my first birthright, the chance to be a woman, in favour of my second birthright, being a man,
'The doctor said it would be easier to hide my female genitalia than the male one, so knowing no different that is what they did.
'They were also advised to keep my secret from me and the rest of the world for as long as possible.'
Caroline was born in Bull Hill Hospital, Darwen, Lancashire, in 1968 to Monica and Rudolph Baker.
But, after her delivery, their good news was shattered when a nurse said their new baby daughter also had male genitalia.
Caroline was brought up as Carl John Baker in the family home, in Darwen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...rs-parents-didnt-tell-shes-hermaphrodite.html
she/he was born that way, didn't suddenly herm half ways through life.