What Is Sex For? To Transmit the Genes of the Microbiome...

Resumen

The effectiveness of sex to make children is remarkably low and totally random: there is no doubt that as soon as possible other methods to procreate will be preferred. Yet humans have an enormous amount of sex, devote a great deal of their resources to it, and most of the time even seek to ensure that sex is not fertile. Why? This article proposes that one of the essential purposes of sexual intercourse, and probably the most important one, is to transmit not our genes, but the genes of microbiome bacteria. This hypothesis makes it possible to explain not only the frequency of sexual intercourse but also of no fertilizing sexual behaviors, even risky ones. This hypothesis is not yet proven but fits perfectly with what has already been demonstrated on animals and humans.

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Gouillou, P. (2020). What Is Sex For? To Transmit the Genes of the Microbiome.... https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k7u8w