timtyler comments on "Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 16 July 2009 06:51:44AM *  0 points [-]

Re: It still doesn't seem to answer why females don't switch to parthenogenesis and block all male advances. But maybe you can detect something I missed?

The standard theories of the evolution of sex explain that. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction

Comment author: timtyler 20 July 2009 08:03:14AM 1 point [-]

Here's a recent NS news article on the topic of EoSex - claiming recent developments:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227121.600-has-the-mystery-of-sex-been-explained-at-last.html

Comment author: cousin_it 21 July 2009 01:03:25PM 1 point [-]

Thanks! Upvoted. That's much more interesting than the article I posted.

Comment author: timtyler 21 July 2009 04:57:49PM -1 points [-]

In case anyone is interested, I posted a brief critique of that article here:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.bio.evolution/browse_thread/thread/43ed69f28e2b3173#

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