Pregnancy Loss and the Evolution of Sex Are Linked by Cellular Line Dance
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 20:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In new research published this week (Aug. 1, 2017) in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Levitis and his collaborators report that meiosis takes a heavy toll on the viability of offspring. And not just for humans. Creatures from geckos to garlic and cactuses to cockroaches pay a price to undergo sexual reproduction.