"Tim Tyler"  wrote in message
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> Perplexed in Peoria  wrote or quoted:
> >
> > "Tim Tyler"  wrote in message
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> > > Without such recombination, organsims would be asexual - and no
> > > cross-breeding would occur.
> >
> > I'm not sure I agree, but this disagreement has nothing to do with group
> > selection.
>
> I /suspect/ this may have something to do with you interpreting
> "sexual recombination" as referring to a process that happens between
> homologous chromosomes - whereas I intended it to refer to any process
> that produces new combinations of genes via sex.
>
> That is a hypothesis which would explain your comment, anyway.

Your hypothesis is correct.  I think that the correct term for your concept
is "mixis".  But double-check this please.  I am going by memory.
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