Louisa van der Luyden wrote:
In
Adam’s Curse, Bryan Sykes zooms in on the battle of the sexes to a microscopic level: it all comes down to the Y-chromosome which is passed on from father to son, and the mitochondrial DNA which we inherit exclusively from our mothers. The first half of the book is absolutely fascinating and I enjoyed reading about the likely origins and the evolutionary advantages of sexual reproduction, how certain species gave up on sex, as well as the reproduction methods of the blue-headed...
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