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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: KEW Episode 117: Let's Talk About Sex Part 1
Description: Sex.We're obsessed with it. And for good reason. Sexual reproduction is the mechanism that perpetuates life. We can't live forever, but we can become essentially immortal by passing on our genes to the next generation.Humans, and other life forms, don't live forever. But one can argue that our DNA does. And it's not all sex, but it's more fun to talk about sex. We used to get along great without sex. All organisms reproduced asexually at first. No boys. No girls. No gender at all. Just a bunch of clones. ...