Another instance where females could have at one time of had both sexes is hermaphroditism -
Humans
Main article:
Intersex
Aside from having an ambiguous-looking external genitalia,
true hermaphroditism in humans differs from
pseudohermaphroditism in that the person's
karyotype has both XX and XY chromosome pairs (
47XXY, 46XX/46XY, 46XX/47XXY or 45X/XY
mosaic) and having both testicular and ovarian tissue. One possible pathophysiologic explanation of this rare phenomenon is a
parthenogenetic division of a haploid ovum into two haploid ova. Upon fertilization of the two ova by two sperm cells (one carrying an
X and the other carrying a
Y chromosome), the two
fertilized ova are then
fused together resulting in a person having dual genitalial, gonadal (
ovotestes) and
genetic sex.
Another common cause of hermaphroditism is the crossing over of the
SRY from the Y chromosome to the X chromosome during
meiosis. The SRY is then activated in only certain areas, causing development of
testes in some areas by beginning a series of events starting with the upregulation of
SOX9, and in other areas not being active (causing the growth of
ovarian tissues). Thus,
testicular and ovarian tissues will both be present in the same individual.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite
It is therefore possible that very early humans did have both reproductive organs combined into a single human and over time that due to the evolution of the planet that would have effected human development and evolution as well the genes of the hermaphrodite human would have become two distinct sexes.
If humans had evolved and been designed so perfectly by a God then there would never be any cellular mutations so as hermaphrodites or children born with four arms and legs. But because there are such mutations recorded throughout history then it is very possible that the first humans that evolved from the cellular mass of the primordial Universe, which can be proven once again as being true because all human life begins as microscopic cells that evolve from the zygote into a human being that is much larger than the initial amount of information present in the zygote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygote
It is also once again possible that the early humans were A-sexual where the zygote was fertilized by the second part of the A-sexual humans reproductive organs through sexual reproduction, which by the way is not the same thing as sexual intercourse. Sexual Reproduction is the act of transferring genetic information into the zygote where sexual intercourse is the act of two separate genders engaging in an act of creating an action between two people where the genetic information is then passed from one host to the next.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intercourse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_reproduction
This discussion is important because it opens the door to issues relating to life on other planets that if life evolved on Earth based on the environment effecting the zygote of the species like it did on Earth then similar effects would caused mutations in other similar zygotes of life on other planets.