RE: Confronting Friends and Family
November 6, 2012 at 8:52 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2012 at 8:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 6, 2012 at 4:58 pm)Daniel Wrote: That theory, as far as I'm concerned, has been pretty much disproven. You can't account for the cost of sexual reproduction due to survivability factors. In fact, the only thing that sexual reproduction produces that is of any real benefit in this scenario are "robust genes", but that in itself doesn't account for the cost of sexual reproduction.You just explained what the metrics were, and why it does. Congratulations.
Quote:The theory I "most agree" with regarding why we have it is the fact that sexual reproduction is social and encourages the mate to care for the vulnerable child. But it's still not enough to account for sex because you need a very complicated and intelligent organism for this to be of benefit, and there are a lot of species that do not benefit from their mate providing any external material support.
Care to source that for me, because I didn't realize that anyone was proposing something so blissfully ignorant for us to agree or disagree with..and I like a good laugh. Honestly, since when was the vulnerable state of the eukaryotic child the explanation for sexual reproduction?
Quote:Having only 50% of your species reproduce instead of 100% is a hugly significant change.That would be significant, howsabout you alert the press the next time a female gives birth to a child without "the other 50%"?
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