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
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
Further, reproduction among fungi was usually sexless, with a sexual union occurring perhaps only once in several generations.
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
A reproductive instinct might be found in parthenogenetic animals, but would be meaningless, because useless, in organisms propagating by sexual union.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
