What's wrong with the human reproductive system?

Question

For both males and females? How could it be redesigned to be more effective/efficient?

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, it's just that I have to redesign the reproductive system for extra credit in one of my classes.

Answer 1

well, for one, males shouldn't have to produce so much sperm to fertilize one egg. During ejackulation, thousands of sperm are released. It could be refined to release fewer to maximize potential of the sperm

Answer 2

Evolutionarily, contraception and cosmetology have doomed humanity.

Think about it.
When homo erectus supposedly existed, the females were hairy. Where did the hair go? Obviously, the guys didn't like making love to hair chicks. So, the hair trait died of and now only resides on the (besides the head) arms and legs, in a much lesser quantity.
With gastric bypass, medicine, and contraceptives, traits are getting passed on that might otherwise not have. For example, a woman with a genetic tendency for fatness would be able to aquaint gentlemen and possible procreate when they otherwise wouldn't have, at least no with the same person. If there were no boob or nose jobs available, in 300 years, mainly human females with nice boobs and noses would exist. Makeup hides unsightly genetic traits.

Contraceptives ruins the whole "survival of the fittest" theory. "Fitness" was defined by Darwin as the highest contributution to the gene pool--not the best looks or otherwise, but rather the sleaziest woman or playerest man. Nowadays, these people, not yearning for offspring responsibility, who actually may be participating in the act of reproduction the most may be contributing the least to the human gene pool.

And of course, there's always the unfortuante truism that females don't need "pleasure" to bear children. It's a sad fact. Orgasmph
If men were compassion creatures they are not, they'd insure that this trait was passed on to their offspring! :-D

Answer 3

to be more efficent, the ovaries could completely connect w/ the oviduct so all eggs released from the follicle would definitely travel down the oviduct and become fertlized (or not). also, seasonal reproduction where human sex hormones function so that there was a "breeding season" i know it sounds like ppl would be acting like animals, but in theory, don't animals have more efficent reproductive systems?
btw, i don't think ppl need more effective reproductive systems b/c the world is so populated that if our systems were less effective other individual's chances of survival are greatly increased because of more available resources (this would be an example of altruistic behavior)

Answer 4

With today's overpopulation, I'm not certain I'd want human reproduction to be more efficient. Besides, I like the current process just the way it is.

Answer 5

Well if you wanted it to be used to its fullest potential you would take the churches out of the bedroom. Sexuality would be taught in schools, and children would be made to understand its awesome potential for physical and emotional pleasure as well as pain. Love would be equated with sex as an external expression of an internal feeling. Early on, It would be put into its proper context in human relationships, and slowly it would be built upon more and more understanding, until it would no longer be equated with being a man or a woman in its context, but rather it would be shown to be an intricate interaction of mind body and soul, so that its importance would not be "genderized," but each would be giving to the other, and the pleasure would come in pleasuring the other. Procreation would become a permanent expression of that interaction, if and when the couple were ready to take on the awesome responsibility of creating a new person. Therefore, it would not be a mistake that cannot be, or was not erased.

Answer 6

Most effective way would be to elimate single gender species, and have people have both male and female parts...kind a do-it-yourself kit as you will. Then, make the pregancies shorter, and the age of maturity shorter, and produce more than one offspring at a time.

This would be most effective, but soon it would be a case of over population...and we already have that problem in certain parts of the world the way things are now.

Effective, maybe, effecient, most certainly, smart? Not a Chance!!!!

Answer 7

I'd say it's pretty efficient the way it is. It could be redesigned so that women could somehow "choose" when they wanted to be fertile, and not have to menstruate monthly (they would love this). Maybe making the genitals and urinary tract so overlapped was a bad idea, haha.

Answer 8

4) transport of oxygen thru a placenta to a fetus

Answer 9

What a dumb question!!! I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.