An advantage of sexual reproduction in a rapidly changing environment.

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When an environmental change imposes strong directional selection, there are two advantages of sexual reproduction. First, an asexual population is limited to the most extreme individual in the population, and progress under directional selection can go no farther without mutation; no such limitation applies to a sexual population. Second, more quantitatively, directional selection in an asexual population...

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