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Genetic damage, mutation, and the evolution of sex
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 20, 1985
Abstract:
The two fundamental aspects of sexual reproduction, recombination and outcrossing, appear to be maintained respectively by the advantages of recombinational repair and genetic complementation. Genetic variation is produced as a by-product of recombinational repair, but it may not be the function of sexual reproduction.