Sex with Scientists: Sexual Reproduction and Other Mysteries of Biology

The greatest biologists of the past have tried to understand why living beings need sexual reproduction, how it originated, what benefits it has brought, and why it has not disappeared. From the book "Sex with Scientists," we learn that scientists attempt to link sex with the mutation process and as a result created an entire field of science — population genetics. The discussion then turns to the division into two sexes, which cannot be understood without game theory. The readers are introduced to the heroes of popular science — sex chromosomes, and fascinating plots from molecular biology are intricately woven. Next, the narrative shifts to meiosis, about which it has been extremely difficult to read something comprehensible for non-specialists until now. In connection with this, one of the most important questions of modern science is discussed — the origin of life on Earth. The narrative also pays tribute to the role of sex in the life of society (about which it seems everything was written long ago, but an extra pair of chapters won't hurt anyone).