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How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations

The Quanta Podcast

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The Disadvantages of Supergines

Supergines offer robust advantages in the inheritance of adaptive traits. They rarely recombine, so any harmful mutations they acquire tend to stay in place. In some species, supergines create a breeding system that in effect has four sexes.

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