Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division

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The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways. Source
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Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

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Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Source
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