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What Is Sex For? To Transmit the Genes of the Microbiome...

2020-08-13

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<p>The effectiveness of sex to make children is remarkably low and totally random: there is no doubt that as soon as possible other methods to procreate will be preferred. Yet humans have an enormous amount of sex, devote a great deal of their resources to it, and most of the time even seek to ensure that sex is not fertile. Why?This article proposes that one of the essential purposes of sexual intercourse, and pr...

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