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Sex may have evolved as a way to pool resources during tough times


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Birds do it, a few bees get to do it – but how did ******* reproduction evolve in the first place? An evolutionary model suggests that it could have started as a way for two cells to pool their resources when favourable environments turn harsh.

“The idea is when times get hard, you fuse with another cell,” says

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at the University of York, ***. “Then you’ve got this big cell which has more chance of surviving.”



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