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What is the EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE...

Name: That guy 2010-03-09 13:09

...of male and female? As opposed to having both organs on a person?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-11 4:54

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Assuming haploid gametes and diploid zygotes, one could imagine a situation in which there is only one kind of reproductive organ/gamete. Upon mating, both unisex organisms receive the other's gametes.  However, the gametes themselves contain some sort of MHC-like molecule that will distinguish self-gametes from non-self gametes.  Thus, two-self gametes could not come together in the womb to form a zygote, whereas two non-self zygotes could.

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