Before power was really crystallized, sex had to be a thing. Then the crafty ones would use sex to gain status - hence the invention of royal marriages and the like later on for diplomacy.
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Conflict evolved before sex. Asexual organisms are still competing with each other, and can functionally have power over each other (such as the ability to eat the other).
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Sex and power aren't strictly speaking different forces, or are they?
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Eggs were around millions of years before the chicken. Pretty sure they determined dinosaurs were egg layers.
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Birdlike eggs with hard shells originated with the first amniote reptiles during the carbonifacous around 310 millions years ago. However if we are counting soft eggs layed in water they date back to the pre-cambrian 600 million years ago. Chickens have only been around 60k years
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Power is clearly more all-encompassing than sex. Sex without power is pointless, your offspring will just starve or be murdered.
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Power dynamics and competition existed before sex for sure. But it's also fair to say that the evolution of sex caused a new power imbalance as you could try to get away with producing a lighter gamete and cheating your partner out of your fair share of the resources.
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There is no sex without power. There is power independently of sex. If the existence of "power" can be interpreted as competition, inequality, conflict, etc., then every will (to change or to evade change) involves power (like Nietzsche would say).
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Surprised at how many people picked sex. The ability to eat something else or secure resources something else needed came way before sexual reproduction. Even on an individual level, children compete for status/dominance way before they have any interest in sex.
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