An organism’s sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes (unlike isogamy where they are the same size). The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown.
“The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown”? What are these scientists doing with their time?
In species that have males and females, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species, with some species having pronounced secondary female sex characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals.
In humans, the word female can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gender role or gender identity.
Why doesn’t a Supreme Court justice have access to this info?
Heresy! Microsoft must be banned at once!!!
GSM: Gamete Size Matters
Gamete..Set..Match..
“The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown.”
This is just a quiet admission that they still can’t scientifically justify Darwinian evolution, but they expect us to believe in it anyway.
I’ve come to the conclusion that evolution — via natural selection — is a fact, not a theory. As geology is. Species develop, just as mountains develop. They did not start out as they are today. Their fossils and their sediment layers prove this.
Like dog species. Like farm species. Without humans selecting them for traits, wild animals are molded by their environment — slowly — into creatures with preferred traits. Longer beaks. Thicker hair. Stronger legs. It’s just evolution. The better adapted survive in a very harsh world. Those with weaker traits don’t — on average. Over time (eons) this average counts. Who do you think populates each next generation? All existing animals, equally? Some must die. Who is most likely to do so?
Who survives from the Donner Party to contribute their genes to the next generation? The smallest and weakest? What traits will that next generation have?
Mokes still don’t get it. The legal industry is there to make money punching holes in everything. You can’t sue your way out of the consequential messes.