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The creation of the universe began with the Big Bang. No one knows where the energy came from, and no one knows what touched it off. A few billion years later there was another bang, just as spectacular, just as mysterious, and just as creative—the Biological Bang.
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Maxwell, K. (1994). The Biological Bang. In: The Sex Imperative. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5988-1_1
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