There's a classic Gary Larson cartoon showing two amoebas sitting at home in their living room chairs, with one, holding a beer, telling the other, "Hey, I got news for you, sweetheart! … I am the lowest form of life on earth!"
Part of the humor of this is that these single-celled critters are known to reproduce asexually. They come from a family of single-celled organisms that were around on this planet long before sex. And indeed, from what we know of the history of
There's a classic Gary Larson cartoon showing two amoebas sitting at home in their living room chairs, with one, holding a beer, telling the other, "Hey, I got news for you, sweetheart! … I am the lowest form of life on earth!"
Part of the humor of this is that these single-celled critters are known to reproduce asexually. They come from a family of single-celled organisms that were around on this planet long before sex. And indeed, from what we know of the history of life, the invention of sex…
