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To better understand and embrace our human sexuality and intimacy, it is essential to know from where our sexuality comes. The following is a brief introduction to the evoution of sex.
About 3.9 billion years ago, from the boiling oceans of our planet, life emerged in the form of bacteria. These prokaryotes or single celled organisms, replicate themselves through mitosis or dividing themselves to create new beings, essentially cloning themselves. There is no relationship or sense of connectedness involved.
About one billion years ago, a very creative technique was invented in the microscopic creatures, where half the genetic structure of two different cells were brought together to form a unique and original third. This is the beginning of sexuality. This form of reproduction, meiosis, enabled a wide variety of new offspring to exist and truly marked the beginning of the spectacular diversity we know today. With this life altering technique, we see the groundwork laid for relationship in life forms.
Next, we come to Mitochondrion. This unique new cell, with its own DNA enabled life to continue by literally entering into another cell as the energy source. This dynamic presents a form of relationship new among living organisms on our earth.
Five hundred million years later, we see the first evidence of community with the creation of multicellularity or the Eukaryote. As these organisms gathered to support and expand their abilities, they discovered their survival rate enhanced through sharing and helping each other.
The next big advance that pertains to our species is the advent of vertebrate sexual organs or genitalia. This is very new, arising in the reptile only three hundred million years ago and was the beginning of mating that came to exist in vertibrates, or animals with backbones including the dinosaur, primates, and ultimately Homo sapiens.
Only seven million year ago did we diverge from our closest primate relatives, the African chimpanzee, and the bonobo, with whom we share 98.4 or our nuclear genetic material.
It would take another three million years for early primates to evolve into the human being; our ancestors, Homo sapiens sapiens arriving on the scene in Africa only 150,000 years ago.
So now you know where our human form of mating originated. Still to come, exploring the difficulties our species still has with this new form of sexuality, relationships, and intimacy!
About 3.9 billion years ago, from the boiling oceans of our planet, life emerged in the form of bacteria. These prokaryotes or single celled organisms, replicate themselves through mitosis or dividing themselves to create new beings, essentially cloning themselves. There is no relationship or sense of connectedness involved.
About one billion years ago, a very creative technique was invented in the microscopic creatures, where half the genetic structure of two different cells were brought together to form a unique and original third. This is the beginning of sexuality. This form of reproduction, meiosis, enabled a wide variety of new offspring to exist and truly marked the beginning of the spectacular diversity we know today. With this life altering technique, we see the groundwork laid for relationship in life forms.
Next, we come to Mitochondrion. This unique new cell, with its own DNA enabled life to continue by literally entering into another cell as the energy source. This dynamic presents a form of relationship new among living organisms on our earth.
Five hundred million years later, we see the first evidence of community with the creation of multicellularity or the Eukaryote. As these organisms gathered to support and expand their abilities, they discovered their survival rate enhanced through sharing and helping each other.
The next big advance that pertains to our species is the advent of vertebrate sexual organs or genitalia. This is very new, arising in the reptile only three hundred million years ago and was the beginning of mating that came to exist in vertibrates, or animals with backbones including the dinosaur, primates, and ultimately Homo sapiens.
Only seven million year ago did we diverge from our closest primate relatives, the African chimpanzee, and the bonobo, with whom we share 98.4 or our nuclear genetic material.
It would take another three million years for early primates to evolve into the human being; our ancestors, Homo sapiens sapiens arriving on the scene in Africa only 150,000 years ago.
So now you know where our human form of mating originated. Still to come, exploring the difficulties our species still has with this new form of sexuality, relationships, and intimacy!
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