Comment by madaxe_again
3 days ago
I suppose it’s a question of perspective.
The best sperm will likely result in the next generation of sperm also being good.
We look at the human as the organism, the sperm as the gamete - but perhaps our logic is anthropocentric - perhaps the sperm is the organism, and we are just the ridiculously elaborate reproductive mechanism.
The current best guess is that animals evolved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choanoflagellate They look quite similar to sperm.
I remember something like they may have sexual reproduction and even form blastulas, but the Wiki article is not very clear, so I may be misremembering.
> we are just the ridiculously elaborate reproductive mechanism
That is the point behind Dawkins' The Selfish Gene.
The book well argues that genes are what reproduce, and that everything else is just complications to reproduce genes.
Humbling book - not light reading but I love it and I read it again and again because of the unobvious insights into systems.
We are (for genes, though, not sperm)