Sex and Death At the beginning of time, all liv…

Sex and Death
At the beginning of time, all living things reproduced by mitosis, without sex and without ageing. Imagine a sea of microalgae all the same, multiplying happily. But there was one small problem: with the arrival of an extreme environmental change, these identical algae were in trouble. The Creativity of Life decided it was time to change things. ‘Let’s do something extraordinary!’ he thought. And he invented meiosis, a process in which two cells joined together to create a new, unique and special one. That was how sex made its appearance on planet earth. But the Creativity of Life did not stop there. ‘What about the ‘parents’?’ he asked himself. ‘We eliminate them, so there is room for the best fruit!’ he said with a mischievous grin. And so, he invented both sex and death, two inseparable allies in the game of life