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Birds do it, bees do it, plants, algae, protozoans, bacteria, and last but not least: mammals and Homo sapiens. Much of the entire biosphere is engaged in sexual recombination. The near universality of sexual recombination lets one suspect a common cause or function.
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Bremermann, H.J. (1987). The adaptive significance of sexuality. In: Stearns, S.C. (eds) The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences. Experientia Supplementum, vol 55. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6273-8_6
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