“We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking Man.” – Sir Terry Pratchett

As Ella Fitzgerald sang “birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it”, and turns out the majority of the animal kingdom does it. Do what you ask…well maybe not fall in love as she implied, but most animals do sexually reproduce, with only around 0.1% of animals being known to be exclusively asexual. Yet this predominance of sex has been puzzling biologists for decades leading it to be called 'the queen of problems in evolutionary biology'. But why is the ubiquity of s