apparently good money was spent to research the scientific reasoning around why we have sex.
not only that, but apparently it was revealed that sex is — at its most simplistic level — a survival mechanism, above all else! and also, this was most clearly shown by studying yeast. isn’t that just fascinating? yeast = super sexxxytime don’t you know.
super
sexxxy
time
now, these researchers scare me just a little bit:
Plus, sex has its downsides. It takes time and energy, and the genetic upheaval doesn’t always turn out for the best, say the researchers.
sex takes time and energy boys and girls. and is apparently totally not worth it. might as well go find something else much more worthwhile and satisfying to do…also, these scientists have clearly never had an orgasm in their entire adult lives. like, ever. i’m convinced that they are, in fact, completely asexual, and that’s why they’re so freaking baffled by the mechanics of sex.
“The challenge now is to understand the nature of the mutations that underlie adaptation and to extend these techniques to large plants and animals,” write the researchers, who included Matthew Goddard of New Zealand’s University of Auckland.
“We are still far from a definitive answer to the question of why sexual reproduction is so common,” says Rolf Hoekstra of the genetics lab at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Hoekstra commented in Nature on the yeast study.
poor matthew goddard…aren’t there any ladies (or dudes, maybe…) in new zealand who would give a poor delusional scientist a quick pity fuck so he can possibly get on to researching something more productive to mankind? like cancer or aids or something.
why is sexual reproduction so common?
i mean, do they even have to ask!?
