"Parasitic invasion credited with evolution of sex" science article

loneloan · Nov 7, 2022

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The first inkling of maleness began when parasitic bacteria jumped between cells, dragging their host's genes with them. And according to the researcher who came up with the controversial idea, the vestiges of this inauspicious beginning persist in the sperm of animals today.

Some time between 2000 million and 700 million years ago, bacteria entered into an uneasy truce with larger cells. These cells were the precursors of complex eukaryotic cells, that eventually evolved into today's multicellular animals and plants.

The bacteria wound up losing around 90 per cent of their genes to the host nucleus and became mitochondria - the energy-generating components of complex cells.
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Bazinet accepts his idea is highly speculative, but he says the bizarre behaviour of mitochondria in the fruit fly Drosophila might point to their earlier behaviour. "Mitochondria do some weird and complicated things in the production of sperm and egg cells that they don't do anywhere else in the body," he explains.

Sexual systems were reorganised when cells took on bacteria as mitochondria, he says, "but systems of genetic exchange were already in place, before the eukaryotic cell evolved". Genetic studies in bacteria have revealed that extensive gene exchange is the norm between different bacteria even though they do not have formal sexual reproduction.
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Personal comment: Im not a valentinian or marcionist gnostic..nor an anti-sex fanatic but I DO think sex is not onthologically real:its something that happens in this Plane,in this 3D dimension. is it bad? no. does it have onthological, "platonic idea" exsitence? I would say also no.

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https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/strange_information/Parasitic invasion credited with evolution of sex.htm

Personal comment: Im not a valentinian or marcionist gnostic..nor an anti-sex fanatic but I DO think sex is not onthologically real:its something that happens in this Plane,in this 3D dimension. is it bad? no. does it have onthological, "platonic idea" exsitence? I would say also no.
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I read a quote once by St. Augustine I think it was... he said the reason a man feels bad after masturbation is because it is the only part of himself that he does not have full control over.

This theory you mentioned in your post would make sense if viewing the mitochondria as originating from a separate lifeform that became part of our current lifeform.

Maybe the mitochondria try to override our intellectual power over sexuality. I am only blindly guessing. But viewing the mitochondria as still having some leftover components of its own inner willpower.. this could explain a lot about sexuality and why it can be so hard to control

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