Timeline for Why asexual reproduction?
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| Feb 26, 2022 at 19:19 | comment | added | Peter Bernhard | "Sexually reproducing species have an advantage, don't they?" - To be corrected to "A(!)-sexually reproducing..."? | |
| Sep 21, 2016 at 21:57 | answer | added | Timothy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 18:53 | comment | added | AMR | There is one thing that both of the answers so far do not say and you kind of have to just think of, but except for the fertilization event, all development in animals anyway is asexual cell division guided by chemical signaling. So even in a human with its trillions of cells, only the fusion of the male and female gamete occurs sexually, the rest of the organism is made through controlled cell division. That program is probably the most important part of the genetic code of an organism, otherwise it will fail to develop. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 16:11 | history | edited | fileunderwater |
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| Jan 20, 2015 at 14:58 | comment | added | fileunderwater | The most obvious disadvantage is that of sexually reproducting organisms, since half of the population cannot reproduce directly (i.e. reproduction will be 50% lower compared to an asexual counterpart), which is why "the mystery of sex" has become a issue. So in evolutionary biology, I would argue that explaining the value of sex has been the bigger issue. | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 3:03 | answer | added | canadianer | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 1:51 | answer | added | anongoodnurse | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 18, 2015 at 0:51 | history | asked | TanMath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |