The Life Ramblings (No. 2)

Part Two of a post I’d written earlier. Follows the invention of reproduction (asexual).

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Why sex was one of life’s greatest inventions.

1. Organisms (molecule systems, qv) were reproducing by fragmentation and continued survival.

2. The pieces that resulted could live, and found new ways of doing old things / new things to do.

3. Therefore, most new babies belonged to different groups, some closer to a few others in structure / mechanisms, and farther from others.

4. In another accident, two forms which were different came close and fused together when say, a wave hit them into togetherness.

5. The wall between them dissolved (?), and they became one system.

6. It was one hell of an uncomfortable situation. But they found they were having a lot of new things inside them (which actually has now become “it”). This was nature’s first act of sex. Divine. Beautiful.

7. It liked the new things. It was happier than the rest of the “singles.”

8. When this chimera fragmented into new babies, they lived better. They were the first family.

9. More and more of these sexual acts happened. More and more organisms found mates and had sex. They together became their own babies before they fragmented.

10. These sexual beings lived better.

Ergo, sex.

Ergo, improvement.

Ergo, diversity.