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Editor's Note: This is absolutely the funniest thing I have ever read concerning evolutionary origins that anyone tried to pass off the any credulity and a straight face (other than punctuated equilibrium).
" The first hint of sex on earth came when two of these one-celled organisms floating around in the soup bumped into each other and "fused" temporarily.
Out of this brief but happy fusion came a third cell.
They liked it so much that they wanted to make a habit of it; but life wasn't that simple for a one-celled creature, and the result was the world's first identity crises.
In order to fuse with another cell, a cell had to be able to move around.
But in order to feed the new cell that came out of their fusion, a "parent" cell had to be able to provide food for it.
No one-celled creature, however, could do both jobs-move in order to mate and also provide food for the new offspring-so two different kinds of cells eventually developed: egg cells to provide the baby food, and sperm cells to provide the mobility.
Thus, in their most basic form, the sexes appeared."
Phil Donahue, The
Human Animal, (Simon and Shuster, 1985), p.32.
Phil Donahue
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