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Why do they do it?

Nature volume 332, page 214 (1988)Cite this article

The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences.

Edited by S. C. Stearns. Birkhäuser:1987. Pp.403. SwFr.80, $59.50. The Evolution of Sex: An Examination of Current Ideas. Edited by Richard E. Michod and Bruce R. Levin. Sinauer/Blackwell Scientific: 1988. Pp.342. Hbk $55; pbk $29.95. In the UK pbk £23, hbk price yet to be set.

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