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If one gender suddenly vanished, would evolution find a way to reproduce?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    No. You know those millions of species that are now extinct? Evolution did F' all to keep them here.

  • 5 years ago

    How do you think evolution works? Evolution is descent with modification. A species that cannot breed is no longer evolving. It's not like a horse spontaneously turned into a zebra.

    If all biologically male humans suddenly vanished worldwide, including unborn boys from pregnant women's wombs, surviving women could produce another generation of the human species using the frozen sperm in sperm banks.

    But if all biologically female humans suddenly vanished worldwide, including all pregnant women, humanity would be in dire risk of going extinct. The last generation of humanity would need to develop an artificial womb within their lifetime if they wanted to gestate any frozen eggs and produce more humans.

    That would be science finding a way, not evolution, though.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    First, let us deal with errors of terminology. Gender is a grammatical construct used for substantives and their qualifiers. When dealing with organisms that can be male, female or both we are talking about sex.

    The question is rather pointless. The probability of one sex suddenly disappearing is zero. If something happened to wipe out an entire half of the world's population we would become extinct prior to evolution having time to find a solution. If not the entirety of one sex disappeared the problem does not arise.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    No. It will take evolution millions of years or even more to find a way to compensate for the loss of the opposite sex. If the whole race of either men or women suddenly vanish over night, evolution can't help human race to recover

  • 5 years ago

    No. You need two genders to reproduce. That's how nature is. Without a woman, there'd be no eggs. Without a man, there'd be no spermatozoa. See how everything goes together? You need eggs AND sperm. That means we need men AND women. If one gender suddenly vanished, the other gender would die off too.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    People will find methods like artificial sperm made from bone marrow. And maybe humans will evolve to reproduce asexualy. A sex(males) vanishing may actually happen in the future according to some articles I read something about the Y chromosome. So I found this question pretty interesting

  • o O o
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    Trust me if evolution was in control in the first place, we would look like some kind of asexual amoeba and not the remarkable human being we have today.

    So if one gender suddenly vanished evolution would fail.

  • 5 years ago

    A gender vanished. Well a species would die out for sure. But life would still go on for lifeforms that don't require gender to survive.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    If a dozen different genders vanished, things would be a lot better.

    We only need two different sexes to keep 95% of species going.

    Could do without; Cis- gender, All-gender, Star-gender, and every other type of gender if we really wanted to.

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  • Chris
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    No. It would die out. One cannot co exist without the other. One gender is the opposite of the other gender despite their the same species. It would be like photosynthesis gone horribly wrong leading the plant to lose it's pigment and die out. Lets say males are sunlight and females are water and soil. The essence of all lives survival. Makes sense. Without the sunlight, no green pigment would grow on the plant, the plant would not be able to even create a flower to make seeds to carry on its gene to the next life to be created. One cannot survive without the other. Without soil and ground water, the plant would turn brown and wither away. Both sexes keep the plant looking it's best and keep the cycle of life growing and produces seeds to carry on so the life can move on and pass on it's gene to a new cell. Both working together work hand in hand and create life together in a beautiful syphany that keeps that life going in for all eternity throughout time.

    Source(s): One cannot survive without the other or the life of that creation ceases to exist.
  • 5 years ago

    It already is happening in developed nations. Womens birth control is not being treated at wasterwater treatment plants and has infiltrated water supplies. Estrogen has turned some water species intersex and to the brink of extinction. While it has reduced y chromosomes and the chance of birthing a male. This is why more women are being born today.

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