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Ep 17: 1000 ways to make a baby

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Sex - The Next Experiment or the Next Thing?

Sex tends to associate with going through a single cell bottle nex likeyo know, e produces babies. And even though the baby comes out as a big organism, it goes through a sycled stage. But if you think about lichens, they can just, aa, break off bits, and they can create new organisms by oro. Even doar familiar strawberry can do a bit oftis fom these runners, which are vegetative forms of reproduction. So why is it that sexual forms that do this kind oflik continual growth from the parent, or maybe breaking off a bit ar even s stars can reproduce that way? E then sometimes try anything else,. toto re

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