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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 43 points 1 month ago

Likely as old as sexuality itself.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

So as old as multicellular life. Which I completely agree with.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably not quite that old. Sexuality probably developed in the Proterozoic as a means of diversifying reproductive burden and offsetting parasites.

Multicellular life predates this by quite a bit.

So homosexuality likely dates back to the Proterozoic Era when the sexes where largely dimorphic and prone to shift as needed. Life ... uh, finds a way.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Single cell life doesn't have sexuality, not even all multicellular organisms do. And there are lifeforms like plants that throw around their pollen and hope that pollen of the opposite sex meet or make insects or alike distribute their pollen to other plants. That's sexuality in the biological sense, too

[-] jack@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago
[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Bacteria don't have sexuality. They copy themselves if you will and exchange small bits of DNA rings with each other but they don't have sexes individuals belong to

[-] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I said GAY BACTERIA

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