Male

alt=A Malayalis|Malayali man with a beard, wearing a checkered shirt, with his arms crossed in 2018|thumb|upright=1|A man

thumb|The symbol of the Roman god Mars (mythology)|Mars (god of war) is often used to represent the male sex. It also stands for the planet [[Mars and is the alchemical symbol for iron.]] Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces, or is organized to produce, the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a

sex chromosome in the XY sex-determination system

patrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans