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The Birth of Sex

Placoderms had intercourse “square-dance style” more than 385 million years ago.

Research in Nature details what may be the first acts of intercourse that took place some 385 million years ago in Scotland​. They performed the act in a maneuver the researchers called “square-dance style.”

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