His first work, The Topology of Meiosis, published in 2002, had a considerable impact. It established, for the first time, on the basis of irrefutable thermodynamic arguments, that the chromosomal separation at the moment of meiosis which creates haploid gametes is in itself a source of instability. In other words, all species dependent on sexual reproduction are by definition mortal.
Houellebecq, Michel. Atomised. pag. 357. Vintage U.K., 2001.
