• Ferk@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    12 hours ago

    I mean, you could say there’s no inherent goal on anything, goals are always subjective/constructed, so from that perspective nothing ever makes sense.

    But I think the question was how is it possible that sex differentiation could have contributed to make us fit and adapted even though in the surface it might seem to be more like an obstacle to reproduction (and thus, survival).

    My guess is that specialization allows for higher level social structures that can more easily organize to survive. You have extreme cases with the bees, ants, etc. whose individuals can even have different sets of chromosomes and are very specialized for specific roles, making them so successful that you have them all over the planet for far longer than humans, millions and millions of years with hardly any changes.