“Reproducing sexually must improve an individual´s reproductive success or else sex would not persist… It is increasingly hard to understand how human beings came to be so clever without considering sexual competition.”

—  Matt Ridley

Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature

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