Well, at least for much of the plant and animal kingdoms.

Every physiological adaption or morphological innovation comes about because it enabled some ancestors to survive, but becomes a trait of a species or a lineage because it gets passed on down the line of descendants.

Hence, sex matters – although, everything else that keeps an individual alive longer to have sex, or have more sex, matters just as much as well!

My friend and colleague Dr. Carin Bondar has a new series out for EarthTouch TV, an internet environmental and science channel on Youtube and also on their own webpage: EarthTouch.tv.