Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Scientists Discover Origins of Sex: Not Missionary Position

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Scientists announced this week that they have traced the origins of sex to an ancient fish.


Turns out that a fish called Microbrachius dicki, or M. Dicki, pioneered intercourse (kind of) as we know it 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland, according to a report published in Nature on Oct. 19.



Professor John Long of Flinders University in Australia, who discovered that the first species to reproduce through internal fertilization belongs to the placoderm group, the earliest vertebrate ancestors of humans, said his insight came about as he was looking through a box of ancient fossils, the BBC reported Read more...


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