Brief Communications
Nature 407, 962 (26 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35039675
Evolution: Paying for sex is not easy
Explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction remains one of the greatest challenges for biology, with more than 20 hypotheses having been advanced so far1. Doncaster et al.2 have proposed another possible explanation, but we question the novelty and importance of their suggested mechanism.
- Institute of Cell, Animal, and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, West Mains Road , Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Correspondence to: A. D. Peters1 e-mail: Email: andy.peters@ed.ac.uk