Why Sex?
Hank gets into why sex is the preferred method of reproduction for most species - and it's not for the reasons you're thinking. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow...
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Have you ever wondered why we have sex? [Sci Show Jingle] Okay, Correction. Have you ever wondered why there is sex? I mean I'm sure that your parents went over the basics with you when you were eleven, or maybe you learned it from that, like, bossy girl at the public swimming pool. But no matter where you learn it the gist is probably the same: We have sex so that we can have more people. Same goes for grasshoppers, and pandas, and poppies. Sexual reproduction exists to make new animals, right? But some animals totally abstain from the sex and they still get the job done making babies all day long all by themselves. If it's possible for some animals to reproduce without having sex why doesn't everybody just do it that way? You know that som...
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Have you ever wondered why we have sex? [Sci Show Jingle] Okay, Correction. Have you ever wondered why there is sex? I mean I'm sure that your parents went over the basics with you when you were eleven, or maybe you learned it from that, like, bossy girl at the public swimming pool. But no matter where you learn it the gist is probably the same: We have sex so that we can have more people. Same goes for grasshoppers, and pandas, and poppies. Sexual reproduction exists to make new animals, right? But some animals totally abstain from the sex and they still get the job done making babies all day long all by themselves. If it's possible for some animals to reproduce without having sex why doesn't everybody just do it that way? You know that som...
