Yahoo! News - What's So Good About Sex? Ask Yeast
Yahoo! News - What's So Good About Sex? Ask Yeast: "They found that under normal conditions, both sorts of yeast fared just as well. But under extreme conditions, the sexy yeast did better.

'Our results indicate that sexual reproduction can provide a selective advantage during adaptation to new environments, and these data are consistent with Weismann's ideas,' they wrote in the journal Nature. But there is still more to study.

'A challenge now is to understand the nature of the mutations that underlie adaptation, and to extend these techniques to larger plants and animals,' they wrote."
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