This is really the third in a series about the evolutionary significance of sex. I recorded this Episode first, then forgot about it and recorded the previous two episodes (117 and 118). Funny that this was all on my mind to the point where I forgot talking about it.
But that’s how important this is. I can’t stress it enough and so give it three Episodes.
The evolution of sexual selection as the way to perpetuate biology near infinitely toward immortality is pretty cool.
The big downside of biology and life is that it ends.
Or does it?
If we look at life through the lens of DNA, maybe it doesn’t end. Maybe DNA just changes vehicles. And the best (as in ‘most fit’) way to do this is to facilitate variation – or responses to environmental change.
Because that pesky environment keeps changing.
This should give all the doomers some good news. DNA is an excellent method for dealing with dramatic environmental change. Even something like climate change.
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