Which evoled first, the male or the female?

Question

for evolution to be true, you would have to eventually have cell dividing miscropic thingys evolve into a male and female, how did it work?

Answer 1

Even organisms as simple as yeast can mate (although they don't have to).  Assuming one s*x came first shows a very poor understanding of evolutionary biology.

Answer 2

The sexes evolved simultaneously.  Why would anyone assume one came first?

Answer 3

ok evolotion is not true i belive the story of the bible but the man came first "adam" whis is in the story the graden of eden.

Answer 4

Presumably, the generation of eggs that hatched came first (parthogenic), so the "female" was first.  Genetic selection and "s*x" came later - for example females that hold sperm for years, generating fertile eggs from one encounter.  There are also animals which are both male and female and can change back and forth in function - producing both eggs and sperm and interacting with others doing the same.

  So you are leaving a lot of steps out between cell dividing organisms and definate male/female organisms.

Answer 5

they elvoled into male first

Answer 6

actually since mitochondria are passed only through the egg and not sperm  our earliest ancestor ( like mitochondrial Eve ) was presumably female. Pathogenesis has been observed in mammals and is frequent in reptiles /amphibians.

I just wish some of these people seeking answers would at least read a bit about something before they come in with the so-called trump cards fed to them by their religious beliefs. As has been stated many times before knowledge is anathema to religion.  By the way...evolution is true......evidence abounds...read about it!

Answer 7

Why does a kid who refers to "cell dividing miscropic thingys" think he knows enough to conclude that all the world's biologists ... that's hundreds of thousands of people with PhD.s in biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, genetics, paleontology. etc. etc .... are wrong, and he knows better?

You will not be able to understand the answer until you know enough about biology to know what chromosomes, gametes, haploid, and diploid, mitosis, and meiosis are.

Answer 8

Another goofy conclusion from someone who apparently misunderstands all things related to science.

Individuals do not evolve - so there was never a first of any gender (BTW there's more than just male and female), or a first of any species for that matter.

How did it work? It would take a 2 semester course in college biology to bring you up to speed - I'm not sure you could handle it.

Answer 9

Oh, hurrah, another thirteen year old creationist who thinks that he's trumped evolution.

Answer 10

"Mating types".

At the single celled organism level, you don't have to have actual sexes for sexual reproduction.  Any haploid gamete can fuse with any other gamete of the species.  This means that a cell's gametes can fuse with each other, negating the benefit of sharing genes throughout the population.  Molecules that required gametes fuse with a gamete expressing a surface molecule, different from the one they express is common.  Although two "sexes" is most common, some fungi have thousands of mating types.  Two sexes became locked in a the multicellular level when a motile (male / sperm) gamete would seek out a sessile (female / oocyte) gamete.

Answer 11

Like most creationists who post here, I'll bet you're not really looking for the right answer... rather the answer you want to hear.  

in that case, choose my answer as best, since it didn't really answer your question.

Creation is the best!!!!!   Giddy up!!!!!

Answer 12

The first sexually-reproducing organisms were almost certainly hermaphroditic - producing both sperm and eggs (and therefore being neither male nor female).

Many organisms still reproduce in this manner - most flowering plants, for example. Snails and slugs; earthworms; etc. All hermaphrodites.

The division into seperate male and female sexes came much later (and there is an interesting explanation of this from the endosymbiotic theory which is too long to go into here)

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journ...

You may be interested to learn that many fungi have much more than two "sexes". The only thing of relevance is that two different sexes of the many possible ones actually reproduce together.