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FLEXIBILITY TRUMPS FITNESS IN SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, SAYS A NEW THEORY IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
November 24, 2008
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 24 -- The University of California at Berkeley issued the following press release:

The utility of sex, according to an intriguing new theory of evolutionary biology, may be its ability to promote genes that play well with many other partners rather than those that shine with just one specific set of genes.

This idea of genetic mixability, described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Nov. 24, hits on the . . .

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