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Published online 17 December 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news991223-1
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The opposite of sex
An interior designer once remarked that the two most difficult things to get right in life are sex and lighting. Sex, certainly, is a complicated business: so much so that you would think most animals would find it simpler to reproduce asexually-that is, by making clones of themselves.
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