> Gaston PICHON wrote in message <3497B43A.5071 at bondy.orstom.fr>...
> >I was told that sexuality could arise in evolution from the intervention
> >of a parasite.
> >Does any has some information on this subject?
Peter Ashton wrote:
> A really good place to start is Matt Ridley's "The Red Queen: Sex and the
> Evolution
> of Human Nature". I seem to remember that he references all the original
> articles that
> he quotes.
>
It probably would be good to check out the work by Curt Lively. He
has examined the maintenance of sex in snail populations (sexual vs.
parthenogenetic) infected with digenetic trematodes (also some work
in fish, too, and probably others).
Good luck,
Eric Wetzel
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