Since we're talking about
sex & evolution I thought I would pass on this
PNAS paper,
Coevolution of robustness, epistasis, and recombination favors asexual reproduction (my emphasis). I covered
statistical epistasis a few years ago, and at that point I was being told that
synergistic epistasis was the critical cog that kept the species a rollin' and a rockin'. But perhaps not (the paper is
Open Access).
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