Sex may have evolved as a way to pool resources during tough times

Birds do that, some bees can do it – but how sexual reproduction develops in the first place? The evolutionary model indicates that it could have started as a means of cells to collect their resources when the favorable environments became harsh.

He says: “The idea is when the times become difficult, as you merge with another cell,” he says. George Constable At York University, UK. “Then you have this big cell that has a greater chance to survive.”