A Time of Magic

Whilst there are oodles of sex toys around these days the very first invention wasn’t a toy itself, but sex itself.

It wasn’t always around but the very first animals to use sex to reproduce came into existence billions of years ago. Once they did, they left all the previous animals in the dust so to speak. With sex came the opportunity for change: two different sets of genes came together and mixed to produce an animal that was different from either of its parents.

That change was fundamental in the development of life. Without it, change would still have happened as there are always “mistakes” in asexual reproduction but they’re generally a “now and again” deal and therefore it would have taken much, much longer for intelligent life to evolve.

The current speculation as to when a human clone will be produced (or has one been born already?) is interesting as it’s a giant step back in evolution, or at least it would be if ever it became cheap enough to be available to everyone.

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