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Sex is not a solution for reproduction: the libertine bubble theory

Thierry Lodé
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Here, I propose a new hypothesis: sex originated from an archaic gene transfer process among prebiotic bubbles without the prerequisite for reproduction. This de-coupling from reproduction might make the thorny problem of accounting for the evolution of sex, despite the apparent advantages of parthenogenicity, more tractable.

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hal-01022094 , version 1 (10-07-2014)

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Thierry Lodé. Sex is not a solution for reproduction: the libertine bubble theory. BioEssays, 2011, 33 (6), pp.419--422. ⟨10.1002/bies.201000125⟩. ⟨hal-01022094⟩
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