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Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations
- vikramkr 7y agoThe article really highlights that there's likely not one single explanation for sex - increasing diversity, decreasing diversity through gene repairs. Same-sex behaviors potentially being something not just even worth being selected against, highlighting the "good enough" nature of natural selection where not everything needs a reason. A good read on the complexity behind explaining phenomena with natural selection - billions of years or random chance + selection pressures has no requirement to result in clean, neat, and easy explanations for complex phenomena.