If we evolved from nothing, did a male and female evolve at the same time to reproduce?

Question

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Just trying to ask what others thing of the slim mere chance of that happening....

Answer 1

That's a really good question. Because most people agree that the first organisms reproduced asexually, and that those organisms are still some of the most adaptable organisms in the world, how and why did other organisms arise and give rise to the sexes? What would cause such a thing?

The male and female did not likely evolve at the same time. the female was first followed by the evolution of the male, this is actually evidenced by the fact that mitochondria are maternally inherited.

Answer 2

When you say "at the same time," that makes it sound like the genders appeared suddenly out of the blue. That's not how evolution works. It involves gradual change over millions upon millions of years. Scientist have some good theories about how this came to be, and I've provided a link to some info below.

BTW, just because people may not know the answer about something in evolution, that doesn't automatically mean "God must have created it then." That's just giving up, not studying the puzzle properly.

Some people thought they stumped scientists by saying, "How could an eye evolve? What good is part of any eye?" But evolutionary scientists have shown repeatedly and i ngreat detail *exactly* how an eye could evolve and how, in fact, part of an eye would be more beneficial than no eye at all.

Answer 3

Nothing evolves from nothing, each step has a step before, but how it works out is whatever happens

There are and were several sorts of critters (single cell) that exchange DNA occasionally translating benefits from one to the next. That is how they created phosphorescent mice.

As things get more systematic you have both male and female in every member of the species.

Eventually some species have male or female only.

There are many species that are in various points in that continuum.

There are many common garden plants where some varieties have both sexes on one plant and others of the same species only have one. In Alligators, sex is determined by egg temperature.

And things get very much stranger than that. In Seahorses the male get pregnant. Some fish are female when young, and male when old or vice versa. Some lizard species are only female, And some like bees are way more complicated than can be gone into here.

Whatever works out works out, or it gets extinct, there is no plan for all.

Answer 4

I don't think anybody is answering your question directly:

Like anything in evolution, you have to understand that everything emerges very slowly over a *huge* amount of time. As such, things arrive in small stages, each of which produces a small advantage.

The evolution of different sexes didn't just go from asexual to split-genders, there was an intermediate stage where there was sexual reproduction but no specialization of the sexes.

So there were three main stages (with *many* substages) in the evolution of sexual reproduction:

1. Asexual reproduction - Offspring develop entirely from the genetics of a single parent. (Current examples: bacteria, protozoans, some plants and fungi, and even some animals, such as aphids, rotifers, but even some fishes, amphibians and a few reptiles).

2. Sexual reproduction without sexes - In this case all members are essentially both male and female ... they exchange genetic material and fertilize each other but there are no specialized sexes. (Current examples: the majority of flowering plants, and many animal species as well, such as clownfish, hamlets, earthworms, banana slugs, etc.)

3. Sexual reproduction with sexes - In this case some individuals specialize in creating and distributing sperm, and others in creating and harboring eggs. (Current examples: some plants, and the majority of animals.)

There are many intermediate stages between these three stages ... including examples in nature. For example, some creatures go through a hermaphrodite stage, followed by a specialized state ... or actually change between male and female specialization. It is an advantage to perform only one role at once (as it requires less energy), and eventually it becomes an advantage for certain individuals to carry that specialization all their lives. Sometimes this is encoded genetically, but sometimes it is environmental (e.g. bees become male or female depending on what they are fed during larval stages).

As far as humans ... we came from a long line that had established sexual specialization (males and females) *long* before mammals came on the scene.

Answer 5

I'll never understand why it's easier for some people to believe we were created from dust by a mystical being than from a chance collection of chemicals sparked to activity by electricity.

And to answer your question, the general theory is that life was originally asexual and reproduced by cellular division.

Answer 6

I truly believe that God made Adam n put him in a deep sleep n maked Eva. It tells us clearly in the Bible in Genesis. Besides, it`s impossible that something would start 2 live without nothing! N how would the sun even start 2 shine with nothing??? God made all the planets, the fishes in the sea n all animals, and all living things!!

Answer 7

I would think so, however i believe God created man and that evolution may have some credibility but it has explained and proven nothing or very little as to the creation of life. For a scientific explination it leaves much to be desired.

Answer 8

We didn't evolve from nothing

Answer 9

In my heart I believe we evolved from the spirit of the Living God, and God put adam in a deep sleep and made a woman. like jesus we're strangers(the children of God who have accepted him into their hearts) in this world just passing through.

Answer 10

thats a good question but that will include religon and logic. so i think that there were bacteria and we evolved from that