NewScientist EvolutionParasites May Have Had Role In Evolution Of Sex
What’s so great about sex? From an evolutionary perspective, the answer is not as obvious as one might think. An article published in the July issue of the American Naturalist suggests that sex may have evolved in part as a defense against parasites.
The strong wind of nineteenth-century secularisation blew from many quarters, including Darwinians, feminists, humanists, trade unions and liberals. But the strongest wind was socialism, since the Soviets instituted the world’s first official state atheism. Darwin’s Britain, by contrast, has yet to disestablish the Church of England. This compromising fact is ignored by British atheists today.
Hiram Caton