>On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 10:24:03 GMT "gareth diamond"
><garethdiamond@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> I am a level2 student from northern ireland, I would be very
>greatful
>>if you could email me some information on 'the role of sex in evolution'
>
Bill Payne wrote:
>Sex is a bit of a problem for evolution. No one has been able to figure
>out how a man and a woman could have evolved through functional
>intermediates to develop a sperm/egg, and the male/female sex organs.
>This is the classic example of Michael Behe's irreducible complexity.
this is, of course, hogwash. Sex is not a problem at all for evolution.
First, go to this note at the talk.origins website:
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/may99.html
a search of google.com using the phrase "the evolution of sex" revealed
quite a bit more. Here are two examples:
http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BIO48/19.Evol.of.Sex.HTML
http://biology.queensu.ca/~biol206/sex.htm
Susan
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