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What is sex?

What is sex?1997

Lynn Margulis

About this book

Featuring numerous full-color photos and illustrations, this book examines the evolutionary history of sexual reproduction. From the thermodynamic underpinnings of sex to the beginnings of human society's decoupling of sex and reproduction, the authors write in a popular science mode on reproduction in species from humans to insects and bacteria to peacocks.

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First published
1997
OL Work ID
OL1959204W

Subjects

HistorySexSex (Biology)

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