Says here that sex came along at least 365 billion million years ago.
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February 25, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Richard Carter (The Friends of Charles Darwin)
*Billion*? Three orders of magnitude out, I think, Doc!
February 26, 2009 at 12:47 am
Udo
Wow, that means sex is actually 27 times older than the universe itself?
February 26, 2009 at 12:52 am
Alan Kellogg
I think it’s neat that sex pre-dates our reality.
February 26, 2009 at 6:17 am
Doc Searls
Thanks, all, for catching that. Duh. Corrected.
July 30, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Ben
Haha, awesome. I never knew you could learn such interesting things about life from fish fossils. Shoulda paid more attention in school.