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Evolution depends on sex

In Reply to: Fluff and Banality at Best. posted by Stuart Gort on August 08, 1999 at 14:02:33:

: Go to the home page and look under the banner. Out of the six links to feature stories, half of them are about sex. Is this the state of affairs in the scientific world of Britian? Benny Hill needn't ever lack work.

: Stuart Gort

Stories about evolutionary biology are likely to concern sex. Since sexual selection is one of the two major selective forces of evolution, along with natural selection (mutation and genetic drift are pretty minor) i wouldn't be surprised if half of all stories on evolutionary biology concerned sex. Also, as Farinata said, sex is an interesting an important topic; I for one woudl like to know if humans are becoming increasingly infertile due to PCBs or some other toxin.

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