RE: Questions about genders ... male/female
November 4, 2014 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2014 at 8:49 pm by SteelCurtain.)
Reader, this represents the most common misunderstanding of evolution that comes from theists. (Not saying you are a theist, just saying that they bring this up too often.)
Evolution does not necessitate that everything trend towards infinity. What I mean by this is that if an organism is perfectly suited to it's environment, then we wouldn't expect any genetic drift. Obviously no organism is perfectly suited to its environment, so there is always space to improve in some areas. However, if a certain aspect of anatomy or physiology functions very well, then there is very little selection pressure. So even if a new gender were to have mutated, it would have very likely been ousted very quickly, as the likelihood that a single new gender would be able to reproduce would be pretty low. In fact, two new genders would likely have had to mutate pretty early in the evolutionary process at the same time within the same population in order for them to have been sexually selected.
Two genders is all that is needed. And if things had gone differently very early on, I might be saying "six genders is all that is needed."
Evolution does not necessitate that everything trend towards infinity. What I mean by this is that if an organism is perfectly suited to it's environment, then we wouldn't expect any genetic drift. Obviously no organism is perfectly suited to its environment, so there is always space to improve in some areas. However, if a certain aspect of anatomy or physiology functions very well, then there is very little selection pressure. So even if a new gender were to have mutated, it would have very likely been ousted very quickly, as the likelihood that a single new gender would be able to reproduce would be pretty low. In fact, two new genders would likely have had to mutate pretty early in the evolutionary process at the same time within the same population in order for them to have been sexually selected.
Two genders is all that is needed. And if things had gone differently very early on, I might be saying "six genders is all that is needed."
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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