do u think that as human beings evolve, there will be more than 2 genders?

Answer 1

No, according to some theory my sister told me after she watched the documentary, the male population will decrease over time and become extinct over thousands of years. Then, the female population will dominate the world. How would they reproduce? You would ask. Believe it or not, the females will develop male genitalia (gross) on their bodies as they evolve so that they can self-reproduce and give birth to more baby females. So, in the future, it is possible that there will be only one gender which is female and the evidence shown today is found in certain iguana species that there is only females that self-reproduce. I hope this helps with your question.

Answer 2

Anything we say about evolution in the future is purely talk, however, it would be highly unlikely.

There are triats that have been highly conserved throughout our evolutionary history. These have often proven to be almost essential. If you look around you you see that even the least similar organism from us that we can find has two sexes. If you look at the human body, the sexes are both anatomically and physiologically complementary. The reactions that happen to make a baby are preprogrammed, it's like the egg has been waiting for wathever it's been waiting for in the sperm and when they fuse, they harmoniously make something completely different, yet with either one of two sexes.

Of course there have been few cases in the medical community where the sex of the the baby was questionable. It does not mean that the baby had no sex or a third sex. Even if that was the case, selective evolution usually acts against such humans so that they do not reproduce viable offsprings. Therefore, as long as the environment stays the same, it is unlikely that even if accidentally nature produces a "third sex" that it will populate the world like crazy.

Answer 3

The future may be more amazing than we couold ever imagine.

I read somewhere that humans will someday have huge brains with long skinny arms and legs. Body parts that we no longer have a use for will disappear. Like the tailbone from the tail that we lost eons ago. There are parts of the human body that science still hasn't identified a use for, like the appendix.

Who knows, we may someday have wings. We may even become the aliens that have traveled back in time and conduct experiments to find parts that we have lost.

But, I think that if there is a gender change in the future, it will be a reduction , not an increase. I think it would be possible for a woman to have the egg and her own fertilization process without necessarily having sex.

I think also the the current trend toward homosexuality and lesbianism is nature's way of reducing the population. I think that is a legitimate evolutionary change that is leading to gender unity. So, we may be on our way to one gender. After population growth has stabilized, we may go back to selection of opposite genders.

Answer 4

Probably not. The three-gender species is a lower order: bees and ants, for example, which have male, female, and neuter. Evolution does not tend to go backward in terms of strategies.

In order to do the three-gender system, queen bees (for example) become the virtual slaves of the hive. They have no life other than reproduction. That might be no problem for a species with little or no brain, but a mind does not quietly accept such a purely physical role.

I do remember a science fiction story like that once, an episode of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, I think. But it turned out to be highly unstable; one of the queens was actually a psychic from our own time "dreaming" of the future in order to be a warning about the disease that killed off most of the men and rendered most of the women sterile (neuters), so that she could wake up in her own time and prevent the appalling future.

And it would be appalling.

Answer 5

If the number of genders would change at all, I would think it would be reduced only to 1, female. Even though I am a man, reprodutively men are only needed for their 23 chromosomes. We are drones. Women, on the other hand, are much more important for reproduction to be successful.

We are already able to clone animals. All scientists would have to do is remove the DNA from a woman's egg and insert the somatic DNA (Body) DNA of another woman, or even herself. It has to be a body cell because tissue cells contain all 46 chromosomes. They then would coax the egg to grow. This is the standard method of cloaning. Ideally, women would be able to give birth to themselves!; doctors could use the woman's own DNA.

If the government were to take control of reproduction, who knows what would happen. Is this the 'Brave New World' that Aldus Huxley warned us about?

From what I have read and studied, the technolgy to do this is not very far away, however it is more a question of morality than of technology.

Some other posters have mentioned the possiblity of the male species disappearing over time naturally, I propose that it could happen, 'not naturally', but rather by human intervention concerning science and technology.

Humans are advanced organisms thefore we have advanced reproduction. Having two sexes helps to increase variation within the gene pool, which has proven to be more successful than gene pools with less variability. If there is only 1 sex, genetic varation would not occur as frequently and the offspring would have less chance for survival due to abormalities and increased genetic diseases.

If the environment would change in a way that would force our species to spread into 3 different genders, I would say yes, but how this would occur, I have no idea. Currently, the best fit method of reproduction in humans in internal fertilization, which generally requires two genders. Common earthworms are hemaphraditic, which actually qualifies them for being uni-gendered. When they mate they connect at the enlarged part of their bodies and exchange DNA. This is very interesting because even though this species has only one gender, it did not give up using other members within its own species to help reproduce and create offspring that are viable. Having three genders would seem to be more beneficial for genetic variability, however in humans, evolutionarily, we did not end up to be tri-gendered.

I do not think there will be 3 genders in the future because it seems that all advanced organisms on this planet currently are dual-gendered after millions of years of evolution. The human species has been on this planet for a fraction of that time. If there is to be a changing in our reproduction method, I think it would be as a result of human intervention in genetics rather than a 'natural' change. The change that would occur I think would make humans uni-gendered and not tri-gendered.

edit: I notice that some people posting might be confusing the poster's meaning of gender. I would take this meaning to be not what sex you believe yourself to be, but rather what sex you genetically are. Let's not confuse the two for they need to be addressed seperately. The sex you consider your self to be is psychological, the sex that you physically are is biological. This is the biology forum, if I am not mistaken.

Answer 6

no this is not possible
like as coin has two side, head or tail, like day has opposite night, happiness is to sadness, negative is to positive therefore there can only be two genders. each one fullfilling the need of other. so the ques go back that r the human beings evolved.
this is still a unresolved question of all time.

like stars are in sky and we are on earth . get the deep meaning of it and do reply

Answer 7

I think the opposite will just happen. It is possible that humans will eventually evolve to be both male and female at the same time. I saw some animals and insects in this Discovery Channel show that can reproduce by themselves! Bummer, haha!

Answer 8

There will always be two geneders, but it's possible we could evolve into different species, especially if there was a cataclysmic event that separated humans into several groups for long periods. Unlikely but possible. It's happened in the past with neanderthal humans.

Answer 9

No, no other species has ever evolved more than 2 genders. We may converge to one gender though, wouldn't that be fun?

Answer 10

no, it will always be 2 genders. there are people who are born with external ambiguous genitalia. it's because of the X and Y chromosomes, and certain hormones which fails to form, which leads to such ambiguous genitalia. human beings have already evolved, if you compare with the first hominids, youll notice a greater growth in the forebrain, and it's because of the information we have, believe it or not.
take a class in physiological psychology or physical anthropology. they will explain in more details.