[I_dmc]

From the Why Do We Do What We Do Dept...

[Mr. Jeeves]

Why make sons and males, if you could just produce females that were able to reproduce by themselves?

The NOW platform in a nutshell.

[Little Ray]

'Cause you'd lack the genetic variation that would allow new traids to be developed and re-inforced, and you would be unable to transmit successful traits through the population.

[Maceman]

Not only does this seem to waste resources, the whole process is prone to failure. There's the risk of not finding a mate, and the risk of getting a disease during mating. There's also a more subtle risk: if an individual reaches reproduction age and finds a mate, it is a successful genotype - a tried and true model of a species. But then that individual mixes their genotype with a mate, with no guarantee that the mixture is going to be any better.

For some reason, this paragraph makes me think of the way Demeocrats and the main stream media criticize the obviously successful war in Iraq.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

It sounds like they are extremely frustrated.

[Hank Rearden]

Nope. We have Dove bars.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Billthedrill]

You can live for years without sex. I am living proof.

[XJarhead]

Why make sons and males, if you could just produce females that were able to reproduce by themselves? That's a division of resources into two sexes that seems unnecessary," she said

I cannot believe a person with those academic credentials could ask such a stupid question. The genetic variation and natural selection argument seemingly cuts that to ribbons.

[UseYourHead]

Speaking of evolving...

Her web page: http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/

[Conspiracy Guy]

Why shouldn't the amoeba be the highest life form. Seems their intelligence is equal to these scientists. God made so many mistakes. These people can straighten all that out.

[theDentist]

"...nobody knows why sex evolved at all"

Bwahahaha... all that "brilliance" and they can't figure it out.

[CommandoFrank]

Hey, I need some right now!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DeathfromBelow]

"Why make sons and males, if you could just produce females that were able to reproduce by themselves? "

If you need to ask that question, then you have been doing it wrong or with the wrong people. i.e., same sex. </I

[DeathfromBelow]

"Why make sons and males, if you could just produce females that were able to reproduce by themselves? "

If you need to ask that question, then you have been doing it wrong or with the wrong people. i.e., same sex. </I

[TRY ONE]

"- but nobody knows why sex evolved at all..." EVOLVED?

It did not EVOLVE --- God CREATED Adam & Eve (BTW, Eve was naked), then WhamO!

[TSgt]

Is it still considered sex if you are alone? ;)

[Jay D. Dyson]

Birds do it, bees do it, humans do it - but nobody knows why sex evolved at all, the world congress of genetics heard in Melbourne today.

In professing themselves wise, they exposed themselves as fools.

C'mon...even if one rules out the obvious elements of sex (orgasm and procreation), sex remains essential to assuring the survival of a given species for three distinct reasons.

1. Sex, of its very nature, provides practical assurance that only those who survive long enough to reach sexual maturity will have the opportunity to procreate.

2. Sex provides a species with the most complex sampling of dominant, codominant and recessive genetic mixes. While the phenotype is usually apparent (and plays a role in attraction between the sexes), the genotype itself is typically hidden and will only manifest itself when a new challenge to the species (such as disease or environmental change) presents itself. Only those that survive said challenge long enough to reproduce will contribute to the ongoing genetic makeup of the species, thus giving their offspring their necessary qualities as well as a mix of other recessive traits that will benefit the following generations when new challenges arise.

3. Every conception is the product of brutal competition. Millions of sperm compete to fertilize one egg. Only one sperm (the fastest and the strongest) will make it. Any artifice in the fertilization process rules out this very necessary and natural part of assuring that Only The Best Ingredients will be used.

-Jay

[Oberon]

So we can have pictures like the following for Madison Avenue to use in product marketing:

[FeliciaCat]

Sex: do we really need it?

Yes. Lots of it ;)

[wardaddy]

More whining from ugly women who had issues with daddy.