How was sex discovered? or how did it evolve?

Answer 1

i researched it. good question. seems to have arose from the need to protect ourselves from disease. you know, if we reproduced asexually, we'd all be wiped out by one disease.

here's some relevant info i found on some website: The key is that sexual reproduction gives a big advantage in the form of variety (gene "recombination"). Variety within a population offers more chances at survival when faced with changing environments. In a population of clones (asexual reproduction), Disaster X can wipe out the entire population because they all have the same susceptibility. But in a population with many variations, there is a better chance that some subset of the population will be able to make it through Disaster X. Or, on a more day-to-day level, a diverse population can explore new avenues of living (new foods, new environments, etc.) whereas the clones need things not to change in order to have the odds in their favor.

Answer 2

Sex was discovered somewhere in Greece around 3500 BCE, shortly after the discovery of beer and weed. For the first three thousand or so years of its existence, sex was a haphazard, messy affair. Expertise at sex was not very widespread, and your average sexually-engaged human was likely to try any position, even dangerous ones which sometimes resulted in death. We know about these ancient sexual positions, which are now lost to time, because of inscriptions on pottery dated around 2740 BCE.
An easy to learn, easy to use copulation technique wasn't invented until well into the Common Era. The originator of the face to face laying down technique that we use today was actually St. Augustine, in his days as a gnostic heathen. It was only after his conversion to the church that the technique became known as the "missionary position".

Answer 3

It's a means of procreation. You can't have an animal species without it. I suppose if you mean in the grand scheme of all species it was developed as an alternative to spewing eggs and semen (not efficient on land), but it's been around for as long as animals have lived out of water.
Photosynthesis is not sex, it's a means of making food. Plants also reproduce sexually, and have reproductive cells of different genders, which fertilize one another to produce seeds.

Answer 4

It's been around from almost the start. Some single celled creatures even exchange genetic material. Some organisms use external methods - broadcast pollinization, fish spawning, some use internal like mammals, birds, reptiles. Just a way to create diversity and make for a stronger gene pool.

Answer 5

How did YOU discover sex?

It just happens!

It doesn't take much to realize that a man and a woman fit together down there.

Answer 6

One night an early man was alone with an early woman, the early man said I have a pole and you have a hole, so let us join them, when they so did, they had lots of fun and thus sex was discovered.

Answer 7

When eye was a little manchild, all eye had to do was watch strange people make beautiful moves, which in turn moved me with the deepest warm feeling, "andromerotica." Then the whole
process came very quickly to me

Answer 8

Adam and Eve discovered in a unusual way

Answer 9

The very first creatures knew what sex was because it was the way they procreated their species. It is inbuilt in us. That why it is called innate.

Answer 10

i don't think plants call it sex, in fact its photosynthesis! evolution is my guess. that and the fact that over centuries it is the only one thing that has allowed us to be here today!