Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis by Isa Schön
Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis by Isa Schön
English | Oct 29, 2009 | ISBN: 9048127696 | 617 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | Oct 29, 2009 | ISBN: 9048127696 | 617 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
Sex is the queen of problems in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of the last remaining evolutionary paradoxes: why sex exists at all. Given that sexual reproduction is costly from an evolutionary point of view, one could wonder why not all animals and plants reproduce asexually. Dozens of contemporary hypotheses attempt to explain the prevalence of sex and its advantages and predict the early extinction of fully asexual lineages.