Procreation is a mechanism by which two living beings, a male and a female, create a third living being that is different from both the father and the mother. In contrast to reproduction by cloning , which results in an organism essentially identical to the parent organism, procreation is a source of innovation. It has contributed to the diversification of life forms throughout evolution .
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Procreation/reproduction
Procreation is a mechanism by which two living beings, a male and a female, create a third living being that is different from both the father and the mother. In contrast to reproduction by cloning , which results in an organism essentially identical to the parent organism, procreation is a source of innovation. It has contributed to the diversification of life forms throughout evolution .
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Aristophanes, Birds 685 ff (trans. O'Neill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.) :
"At the beginning there was only Khaos (Air), Nyx (Night), dark Erebos (Darkness), and deep Tartaros (Hell's Pit). Ge (Earth), Aer (Air) [i.e. Aither the upper air] and Ouranos (Heaven) had no existence. Firstly, black-winged Nyx (Night) laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebos (Darkness), and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros [Himeros the elder eros] with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest. He mated [or fertilised] in deep Tartaros (Hell-Pit) with dark Khaos (Air), winged like himself, and thus hatched forth our race, which was the first to see the light. That of the Immortals did not exist until Eros had brought together all the ingredients of the world, and from their marriage Ouranos (Heaven), Okeanos (Ocean), Ge (Earth) and the imperishable race of blessed gods (Theoi) sprang into being. Thus our origin is very much older than that of the dwellers in Olympos. We are the offspring of Eros; there are a thousand proofs to show it. We have wings and we lend assistance to lovers. How many handsome youths, who had sworn to remain insensible, have opened their thighs because of our power and have yielded themselves to their lovers when almost at the end of their youth, being led away by the gift of a quail, a waterfowl, a goose, or a cock."
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