This is why we can’t solve the puzzle of how sex evolved by pointing directly to how it speeds up evolution.I find the Red Queen hypothesis for how sexual reproduction could be useful after even a single generation very convincing.
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This is why we can’t solve the puzzle of how sex evolved by pointing directly to how it speeds up evolution.I find the Red Queen hypothesis for how sexual reproduction could be useful after even a single generation very convincing.
Have you read The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card? It’s one of my favorite books of his and deals with a world in which a few humans with special power act as gods and watch over everyone, not allowing any pain. One day these “gods” decide that such a world has no stories, and they stop acting as gods, allowing the people to experience pain. (The book contains may of Orson Scott Card’s earliest stories, I believe, certainly from before he started from Older Author Syndrome.)