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
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
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
The reason is this: the Arunta do not recognise the processes of sexual union as the cause of the production of children.
From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)
