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A raunchy new 'Big History' tells the story of sex, but raises some unanswered questions

  • Written by: Melissa Kang, Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
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David Baker’s Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation condenses the story of the evolution of (predominantly) reproductive sex into 300 pages. That is quite a feat.

The book is one of the latest additions to the popular “Big History” genre. First defined by Macquarie University historian David...

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