Questions about genders ... male/female

[tantric]

Yeah, GC, because as we all know, both genders must have popped into existence exactly as they are now right from the very start...........

You're going to have to learn at least a smidge of evolutionary biology before you're even capable of forming a question that isn't absurd on it's very face. That said, we don't ultimately know why gender ended up the way it did, or when, precisely it happened, or under what circumstances. And?

Sounds like my question has stumped you, seems you know very little yourself if one you accuse of not knowing much can stump you.

GC

Oh good grief, *hundreds* of papers have been written about it. They've even run experiments with species that have both sexes and hermaphrodites. And BTW, the male/female thing is mostly for land animals. Lots of ocean fish don't work that way - like ribbon eels or clownfish. Stuff like asynchronous hermaphrodites (animals that are born male then turn female). Not to mention plants, and then fungi, which are + and - instead of M/F. Or you could look here, in wikipedia. There was recently a paper published that showed how primroses that use sexual reproduction don't accumulate harmful mutations.