Article
Advantages of sexual reproduction.
Developmental genetics - 1 Jan 1994
Crow J F
Abstract excerpt
Despite the obvious efficiencies of many forms of asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction abounds. Asexual species, for the most part, are relatively short-lived offshoots of sexual ancestors. From the nineteenth century, it has been recognized that, since there is no obvious advantage to the i...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Diploidy
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation
- Reproduction, Asexual
- Sex
- Sex Determination Analysis
- Sex Ratio