sexual union
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In nature, the sexual union of unlike MHCs yields offspring with more diverse and thus more robust immune systems.
From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2012
Further, reproduction among fungi was usually sexless, with a sexual union occurring perhaps only once in several generations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most fungi reproduce by the sexual union of two different spores, sometimes drop hundreds 'of millions of spores in three or four days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet, curiously, it has been largely ignored by social scientists in favor of other human attachments: the sexual union, the family, the group.
From Time Magazine Archive
The intermixture of distinct species is guarded against by the aversion of the individuals composing them to sexual union, or by the sterility of the mule offspring.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
