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SEXUAL SELECTION THEORY "developed from Darwin’s original intuition, is a cornerstone of evolutionary theory and represents the most parsimonious and robust explanation for a bewildering array of evolutionary patterns and diversity." https://lnkd.in/dbDjBx2 View in LinkedIn

DIAGNOSTIC. "A major source of signs of sex for any species is its genome." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

QUANDARY. "The pervasiveness of sex, given its varied and potentially large costs, is highly perplexing." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

EUK AND ASEXUALITY. "Whereas absence of sex is considered as something scandalous for a zoologist, scientists studying protists, which represent the majority of extant eukaryotic diversity, are much more ready to accept that a particular eukaryotic group has not shown any evidence of sexual processes." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

ANEUPLOIDY AND CANCER. "It is now known that aneuploidy is associated with many forms of cancer." https://lnkd.in/dd-eUTZ View in LinkedIn

THE EUK MYTH. "The list of eukaryotic species that lack strong direct evidence for meiotic sex, but that seem sexual, as suggested by the presence of these meiosis-associated genes, is growing longer and longer." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

EUK AND EPISODIC SEX. "Hence, from the perspective of cell lineage, sex in multicellular organisms is as episodic as it is in facultatively sexual unicellular eukaryotes. Indeed, tens to hundreds of clonal cell divisions may occur in the germ line of different multicellular organisms." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

EUK CLONALITY. "In fact, a multicellular organism is “nothing else than” a clonally propagating population of cells that are physically linked." A contrarian viewpoint. https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn

EUK SEXUAL REPRODUCTION. "The prevailing view seems to be that multicellular organisms are obligately sexual while clonally reproducing representatives are an oddity, whereas microbial eukaryotes (protists) are perceived as just facultatively sexual, or even purely clonal." https://lnkd.in/deZ8DED View in LinkedIn