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A centrosomal theory of the short term evolutionary maintenance of sexual reproduction.
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A new mode of inheritance is postulated in which a sexual offspring receives a contribution from each parent and selects the better to pass on to its own offspring. This could provide a simple advantage to sex over a sex whose magnitude is shown to be of the order of a doubling of fitness in each generation, large enough to cancel the twofold cost of sex. This possible advantage to sex can be realized only if a cell component is in fact inherited in this selectively ambiguous way. No such com...
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- 10.1016/s0022-5193(88)80233-9
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- Journal:
- Journal of theoretical biology
- Volume:
- 131
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 163-173
- Publication date:
- 1988-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1095-8541
- ISSN:
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0022-5193
- Source identifiers:
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386573
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- English
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pubs:386573
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