Ep 17: 1000 ways to make a baby
Big Biology
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The Cost of Sex
Sex is a very prevalent reproductive strategy. Males can also be an evolutionary pain in the ass by competing with each other or with females, which wastes resources that could otherwise go toward babies. We discuss her maphroditic snails, microbes that have sex once every ten thousand generations, and crustaceans that mate only when conditions get bad.
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