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Origin of sex revisited.

Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life - 1 Oct 2003

Santos Mauro, Zintzaras Elias, Szathmáry Eörs

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Why did sex ever arise in the first place? Why it does not disappear in view of the greater efficiency of asexuals? These are clearly two different questions, and we suggest here that the solution for the origin of sex does not necessarily come from theoretical considerations based on currently existing genetic systems. Thus, while we agree with a number of authors in that the emergence of sex (understood as the...

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PMID: 14604184
DOI: 10.1023/a:1025759024888

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