The headline on this article about bdelloid rotifers from the BBC was “Eighty Million Years Without Sex” and immediately my heart went out to this poor bastard of a pond dweller. Then it turns out that the reasons it’s survived so long is in fact because it doesn’t have sex and it’s genes eventually adapt, causing it to survive. So what’s that mean?
It’s just more evidence that humanity will eventually be completely screwed because we’re naturally horny. But hey, we might’ve found the newest government talking point on why abstinence works.
