By Matt Ridley
Bringing up the pink Queen from Lewis Carroll's during the having a look Glass, who has to maintain working to stick within the similar position, Ridley demonstrates why intercourse is humanity's most sensible procedure for outwitting its regularly mutating inner predators, and solutions dozens of different riddles of human nature and tradition.
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Unfortunately, it is far too weak an effect to be the main explanation for sex ' s prevalence. " In recent years the geneticists have turned away from good mutations and begun to think about bad ones: Sex, they suggest, is a way of getting rid of bad mutations. This idea also has its origins in the 1960s, with Hermann Muller, one of the fathers of the Vicar of Bray theory Muller, who spent much of his career at the University of Indiana, published his first scientific paper on genes in 1911, and a veritable flood of ideas and experiments followed in the succeeding decades.
After all, the best thing an individual animal can do for its species is to survive and breed. Often, however, the two imperatives will be in conflict. Suppose the individual is a tigress whose territory has recently been invaded by another tigress. Does she welcome the intruder and discuss how best they can cohabit the territory, sharing prey? No, she fights her to the death, which from the point of view of the species is unhelpful. Or suppose the individual is an eaglet of a rare species anxiously watched by conservationists in its nest.
Its advantages are far too remote; they will appear after a few generations, by which time any asexual competitor will long ago have outpopulated its sexual rivals. Besides, if sex is good at throwing together good combinations of genes, it will be even better at breaking them up. The one thing you can be sure about sexual creatures is that their offspring will be different from them, as many a Caesar, Bourbon, and Plantagenet discovered to their disappointment: Plant breeders much prefer varieties of wheat or corn that are male-sterile and produce seeds without sex because it enables them to be sure their good varieties will breed true.