On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 09:46:20AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > evolution of life. I think we do have evidence that with sex, the > evolution of species has been accelerated. >
I don't think that is true, but even if it were, it doesn't explain why sex accelerates the evolution of species. If anything, the reverse is to be expected, because interchange of genetic material acts as a brake on regular genetic drift due to mutation. Indeed, because of sex, sympatric speciation was widely considered impossible, although it appears that nobody told Nature that! >From what I see, the role and function of sex is still a mystery, although there have been a number of plausible explanations that have been put forward that have yet to be tested to the scientific community's satisfaction. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
