Discovery: Why Sex?

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'Why?' is a question that animates the youngest of children to the most seasoned of scientists. The acts of asking and answering 'Why?' highlight the integrated nature of scientific knowledge and discovery. Demonstrates scientific disciplines are not walled cities in which knowledge is neatly segregated from lines of inquiry and knowledge in other disciplines. Instead, scientific concepts weave throughout and between disciplines and scientists increasingly rely on colleagues from different scientific fields to find answers to scientific questions. So our journey to find responses to the question 'Why Sex?' takes us not just to biology, but also to earth science and to physics. Along the way, scientists are linked together not only through concepts that crosscut the disciplines, but also in their reliance upon key scientific skills such as the ability to observe, think critically, measure, gather data and communicate their findings.