Origins of Sex: Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination by Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margulis

Origins of Sex: Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination

Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margulis

259 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A fascinating and detailed examination of the evolution—and occasional devolution—of sexuality in microorganisms and more complex forms of life. Margulis and Sagan trace sex from its inauspicious beginnings in bacteria threatened by ultraviolet ra...

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