Sex accelerates adaptation

  • Goddard M
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Abstract

An analysis confirms the long-standing theory that sex increases the rate of adaptive evolution by accelerating the speed at which beneficial mutations sweep through sexual, as opposed to asexual, populations.

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Goddard, M. R. (2016). Sex accelerates adaptation. Nature, 531(7593), 176–177. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17304

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