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

✍ Scribed by Thierry Lodé

• Book ID: 101703983
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0265-9247
• DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000125

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

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.