Understanding Sex (2 of 23)

We have to do it the hard way.
For human reproduction, it takes two, and sex.
This fact that it takes two organisms to produce one organism is really a paradox in biology, because it would be much simpler just for one organism to produce one organism...
...virgin birth, or to have females go about just cloning themselves and producing their offspring.
Consider the whiptail lizard.
These are parthenogenetic animals, which means they are all female.
This individual will lay eggs and all of the offspring will be female, and they will be genetically identical to the sisters and to mom.
Now, this is efficiency.

A single sex.
When a whiptail's biological clock goes off, she just lays some eggs.
Sex education classes for whiptails would take about three minutes.
No complicated mating or that sperm stuff, just instant motherhood.
Life by default is female.
Reproduction requires providing offspring with, with, ah, nourishments and, and resources and, and so, ah, this is the female function.
Um, and asexual species, species that do not have sex, are always all female, um, with, without any males.
and so the female function has to exist for life to exist.
As you all know, for one thing and one thing only, do we need men! Can you not do any better than that? Oh! The way I like to think of it is that the female is the ancestral sex.