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Sex (and the fish who invented it)

Patented: History of Inventions

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Darwin's Snipery Hypothesis

Natural selection is that great in a heavy inverted commas, that great designer. Why did we go from asexual reproduction kind of cloning yourself to sexual reproduction? Like, why did it find that solution? Well, it comes back to a Darwin simple idea of survival of a fittest. Fittest in nature really means the best reproductive ability. It's not who's the strongest fit. We'll be back after this short break.

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