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Why, despite attempts over two millennia to study the essence and evolution of man, science is still unable to answer a number of important questions. We will never understand ourselves without knowing how the nature of all life on earth has changed, because humans are, as we know, just a species of mammal, one of a huge number. And the key question that needs to be answered is this: why did most living things need to go to the trouble of having separate males and females for sexual reproduction, if asexual reproduction requires much less time and effort? To provide a comprehensive explanation of the phenomenon of sexual reproduction, Matt Ridley brings together a number of areas of scientific thought, combining theoretical statements, the results of research by many scientists, his own erudition and wit.