Really, why do men exist?
19 May 2015 - 02:07
Feminists have debated it for decades, but scientists have finally got to the bottom of why men still exist. Biologists have always puzzled over why males have survived given that their only contribution to reproduction is sperm.It makes far more sense in evolutionary terms to have an all-female asexual population which creates daughters who can reproduce rather than sons who cannot.
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