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The Evolution of Sex
There seems to be some significant evolutionary pressure towards sexual reproduction rather than asexual reproduction. Why sex specifically, as opposed to other methods of genetic recombination evolved? To facilitate genes transfer is very, very weird and not as easily explained by the gradual process of Darwinian evolution. It's hard to pinpoint at what point in the single celled part of our evolution that spawned the first eukaryotes.
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