Yeah it feels like a weird way to say that humans still have vestigial signs of a cloaca. It’s understood that evolutionary ancestors did, so humans’ ancestors would need to have separated the functions during their evolution… I guess the news is that there is still genetic evidence even today.
Alternatively, creationists can take this as a sign a creator considers butt stuff to be natural sex also 👍
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 days ago
Yeah, the first thing the embryo of vertebrates folds into is a torus whose hole will become the digestive system. Reproductive organs come way later.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
So very early in our development we’re just an asshole. Some people apparently never make it past this stage.
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Not to mention that animals with reproductive systems but that reproduced asexually evolved long before sperm.
e.g. earthworms