{"id":33134,"date":"2017-01-03T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/sex-exists-to-avoid-disease-study-demonstrates"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:54:21","slug":"sex-exists-to-avoid-disease-study-demonstrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/sex-exists-to-avoid-disease-study-demonstrates","title":{"rendered":"Sex exists to avoid disease, study demonstrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sex-exists-to-avoid-disease-study-demonstrates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy comparing clonal and sexual daughters from the same mothers, we found sexually produced offspring get less sick,\u201d Auld said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>PARIS \u2013 From an evolutionary perspective, sexual reproduction could be seen as a nonstarter. Compared to cloning, which also exists in nature, it is a major waste of time and energy.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the ungainly, preening peacock \u2014 an easy snack for tigers and wild dogs \u2014 strutting his stuff to impress the ladies.<\/p>\n<p>Even without predators, sex and its attendant rituals can be dangerous, such as when stags butt heads or male lions fight for mating rights.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2016\/12\/21\/world\/science-health-world\/sex-exists-avoid-disease-study-demonstrates\/\">http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2016\/12\/21\/world\/science-he...onstrates\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy comparing clonal and sexual daughters from the same mothers, we found sexually produced offspring get less sick,\u201d Auld said. PARIS \u2013 From an evolutionary perspective, sexual reproduction could be seen as a nonstarter. Compared to cloning, which also exists in nature, it is a major waste of time and energy. Think of the ungainly, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65443,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions\/65443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}