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· 4 years ago
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I think it depends on what we mean by “if sex didn’t exist.” It could be possible to transform into a society without sex by using artificial insemination or even one day synthetic wombs or completely synthetic DNA. But if we say “sex didn’t exist” as though sex NEVER existed- well.... the conclusion is backwards. If you saw a society like the picture where sex doesn’t exist- unless people are immortal or something- they reproduce. So if humans still existed in 2020 but sex never existed- that would most likely mean that humans had simply evolved to reproduce non sexually. The odds of that, and of us surviving as a species of that were the case, can be said to be slim- but not all reproduction is sexual reproduction.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
In a species without sexual reproduction, it is very likely we wouldn’t have “sexes” of male and female- since non sexual reproduction would most likely be some sort of asexual process akin to cloning ones self. You wouldn’t likely have primary and secondary sexual characteristics. Not one sex that was physically stronger or had larger breasts or more body hair or deeper voices etc. from our perspective they’d be fairly androgynous most likely.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Without sex- and sexual relationships- you most likely wouldn’t have a concept of gender either. Gender roles, gender discrimination. And- many of our aggressive drives can be traced to sex drives and mating behavior.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
And besides the implications that has on human behavior in general, it would certainly clear up a lot of the energy and time and resources and road blocks to progress that working out these issues and finding their social stride has had on humanity. BUT- that doesn’t necessarily end racism. It doesn’t stop other forms of persecution- or even new forms we never faced that could be the results of this hypothetical asexual reproducing human society.
guest_
· 4 years ago
And what effect would it have- people effectively cloning themselves? Nepotism and Cronyism and such are bad enough when kids are a genetic amalgamation of parents and families have some genetic distance. Not to mention that for every Einstein there are throngs if just.... well... the opposite more or less. How would social and biological evolution be impacted? How would mutations and such be controlled? Would the standards of society be far more narrow and would things be more conformist? Would that impact innovation? Lots of variables here. It almost certainly would be a very different world from the one we know if humans and our ancestors never sexually reproduced by reproduced else wise- and that’s without getting into all the other possible ways besides asexual reproduction or simple replication which could be the case.