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Andrew Berry

Andrew Berry teaches evolutionary biology at Harvard.

From the London Review dated 6 February 2003

Reasons for Being Nice and Having Sex

  • Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W.D. Hamilton. Vol. II: The Evolution of Sex by W.D. Hamilton

Surprisingly, it is not at all clear why sex exists. Requiring the contribution of two parents in the production of offspring is remarkably inefficient. In evolutionary terms, hermaphroditism is . . . twice as efficient a reproductive strategy as sex. Why, then, isn’t the natural world dominated by male-less species? [ read more . . . ]

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