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Darwin in the Cape - Presentation by Dr Wilmot James
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Darwin's Second Theory: sexual selection and genetic evolution
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 05:21
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
"There is a fundamental difference between the sexes," says Professor Michael Cherry, of the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University. "Males have large numbers of small, mass-produced sperm, whereas females have large but limited numbers of eggs."

This asymmetry creates an enormous amount of competition between the sexes. And that pressure has consequences.

Professor Cherry will be presenting a Darwin Seminar at the University of Cape Town on 6 August. The series is a joint initiative of the Africa Genome Education Institute and the Division of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town. His topic is "Sexual Selection -Darwin's Second Theory."
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