If you don't believe God created all living things, male and female, in 6 days....
How many millions of years was it between the first male and the first female?
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And before hermaphrodites there was conjugation
Did you miss high school biology?
Your question, "How many millions of years was it between the first male and the first female?" is obviously an attempt at a trap. Fottunately, everyone here knows more than you do, so they will only laugh at your ignorance of biology.
No, no, Lex Kitten--it is my understanding that, generally speaking, it is the male who comes first.
A question like this, though, makes me wonder if Unknown knows that there are organisms that get by perfectly well without having sexes--or sex, for that matter.
@vampirehummingbird: Even in one of the top pharmacy schools in the nation, the issue of evolution is never touched on. In general the issue is really never raised, unless you're taking, say, evolutionary biology or something similar.
twelve million, 196 years, 4 months, 3 days. It was a tuesday.
I never should have gotten out of bed THAT day... oy!
Self-fertile females (reproducing by parthenogenesis) would precede males. The Y chromosome is an incomplete X, males are the "mutants". Of course asexual reproduction and bacteria-type genetic exchange would have been around before that and....
Why am I trying to seriously debate this person?
Since the default genetic pattern is what we might call "female" (meaning that it carries the offspring, harbors the egg, etc.), a couple billion. Good thing that life was originally asexual and then hermaphroditic long before genders evolved, huh?
Y chromosome = crumpled up, crappy X. Females have been here longer, we win! :D :D
"Geneticists have established that every woman in the world shares a single female ancestor who lived 150,000 years ago. Scientists actually call her 'Eve,' and every man shares a single male ancestor called 'Adam.' It's also been established, however, that 'Adam' was born 80,000 years after 'Eve.' So the world before him was one of heavy to industrial-strength lesbianism, one assumes."
- Stephen Fry, QI , series A, show 1
The saddest thing is, this appears at the bottom of EVERY PAGE of the Missing Universe Museum.
The guy who wrote it refuses to say who he is, thinks evolution and creation are "opposites," and gives an FAQ page that gives information about abortion quoted from the bible.
Oh, and several passages from the bible that show that descriptions of Behemoth and Leviathan "appear to describe a dinosaur."
Is anybody else surprised that this guy (check this very quote- you can tell he's male) can type?
Bazinet's hypothesis seems to be the one in vogue at the moment, so the "male" would be the organism budding the symbiotic bacteria, and the "female" would be the receptive cell into which the bacteria was accepted.
Since wherever you draw the line between symbiotic/parasitic colonisation and sexual reproduction, the first act is the production of the proto-gamete by the "male", the men came first (so no change there then).
If we say those first gametes were absorbed in about a minute, then the first female follows the first male by 0.0000000000019 million years. Thanks for asking.
See: www.stjohns.edu
"How many millions of years was it between the first male and the first female?"
Dunno, but if God had created Eve first, then the first few thousands of years would've consisted of heavy- to industrial-strength Lesbianism.
Better not watch the anime series "Vandread", if you know what's good for you, Unknown. The scenario's concept of a gender-separated humanity in the future (Taraakians - males; Mejerrans - females) would blow your mind.
Well, the first "female" had to be there to give birth, but being a hermaphrodite, she didn't need a separate male for a few million years...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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