Weird sex: the underappreciated diversity of sexual reproduction

Weird sex: the underappreciated diversity of sexual reproduction.

Sexual Reproduction and the Evolution of Sex

People typically employ several arguments in their efforts to explain the prevalence of sexual reproduction. One such argument is that organisms engage in sex because it is pleasurable. However, from an evolutionary perspective, this explanation arrived only moments ago. The first eukaryotes to engage in sex were single-celled protists that appeared approximately 2 billion years ago, over 1.3 b...

"Weird Machines" in ELF: A Spotlight on the Underappreciated Metadata

Although software exploitation historically started as an exercise in coaxing the target’s execution into attackersupplied binary shellcode, it soon became a practical study in pushing the limits of unexpected computation that could be caused by crafted data not containing any native code. We show how the ABI metadata that drives the creation of a process’ runtime can also drive arbitrary compu...

Quantum Mechanics and the Mechanism of Sexual Reproduction

There are many claims that quantum mechanics plays a key role in the origin and/or operation of biological organisms. The mechanism of the meiosis, mitosis and gametes life cycle from the view-point of quantum for human has been represented. The quantum gates have been used to simulate these processes for the first time. The reason of several hundred sperms has been explained in the male too

Quantum Mechanics and the Mechanism of Sexual Reproduction

There are many claims that quantum mechanics plays a key role in the origin and/or operation of biological organisms. The mechanism of the meiosis, mitosis and gametes life cycle from the view-point of quantum for human has been represented. The quantum gates have been used to simulate these processes for the first time. The reason of several hundred sperms has been explained in the male too