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The evolutionary enigma of sex.

The American naturalist - 1 Jul 2009

Otto Sarah P

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Sexual reproduction entails a number of costs, and yet the majority of eukaryotes engage in sex, at least occasionally. In this article, I review early models to explain the evolution of sex and why they failed to do so. More recent efforts have attempted to account for the complexities of evolution in the real world, with selection that varies over time and space, with differences among individuals in the...

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PMID: 19441962
DOI: 10.1086/599084

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