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The origin of sex is a 567 million-year-old deep-sea creature - The Times

By Kaya Burgess

The origin of sex is a 567 million-year-old deep-sea creature - The Times

The fossil of a tube-shaped coral-like organism shows it was reproducing ten million years earlier than previously believed, scientists found in Canada

Each generation thinks it invented sex, the science fiction writer Robert Heinlein wrote. A new discovery reveals that sexual reproduction actually dates back 567 million years, ten million years ear… [+3638 chars]

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