0527最新英文科普 打字学习同步
Sex might seem like one of those little gifts from evolution.
But it's pretty inefficient from an evolutionary perspective.
It'd be much easier to reproduce if you could do away with
finding the right member of the opposite sex to help you create
the next generation. So why did evolution come up with sex?
Biologists have hypothesized that one driving force might have
been parasites. Now scientists have had a chance to test that
theory. Asexual reproduction leads to clones. Being genetically
identical, clones are also weak in the same ways, and thus more
likely to all succumb to a parasite. But sex keeps shuffling
the genetic deck.
Well, there's a snail common in New Zealand lakes that does
both-some populations have sex and some reproduce asexually. So
researchers spent 10 years monitoring the two populations, and
the number of parasites living off both groups. As expected,
cloned snails that were plentiful at the beginning of the study
suffered big losses as they became infected with parasites. But
the sexual snail populations remained stable, results published
in the journal American Naturalist. So, next time you're feeling
sexy, thank a parasite.
But it's pretty inefficient from an evolutionary perspective.
It'd be much easier to reproduce if you could do away with
finding the right member of the opposite sex to help you create
the next generation. So why did evolution come up with sex?
Biologists have hypothesized that one driving force might have
been parasites. Now scientists have had a chance to test that
theory. Asexual reproduction leads to clones. Being genetically
identical, clones are also weak in the same ways, and thus more
likely to all succumb to a parasite. But sex keeps shuffling
the genetic deck.
Well, there's a snail common in New Zealand lakes that does
both-some populations have sex and some reproduce asexually. So
researchers spent 10 years monitoring the two populations, and
the number of parasites living off both groups. As expected,
cloned snails that were plentiful at the beginning of the study
suffered big losses as they became infected with parasites. But
the sexual snail populations remained stable, results published
in the journal American Naturalist. So, next time you're feeling
sexy, thank a parasite.
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