Sex: How evolution struggles to explain it.
Friday, October 17th, 2008A challenge to Darwin’s theory of sexual selection.
Sex: why is it so prevalent in nearly all species of life? Because its fun? Well maybe for some higher forms of life; however, plants and microbes practice sex also—we don’t see any smiles on them. The inefficiencies of sexual compared to asexual reproduction are enormous. Darwin and later Richard Dawkins the Darwinian champion failed to offer an evolutionary explanation. In fact, a recent theory rejects the notion that Darwin’s sexual selection theory offers a rationale for sex.









