Koinophilia stabilizes bi-gender sexual reproduction against asex in an unchanging environment.

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Koinophilia, the tendency to choose mates with predominantly common phenotypic features, may be favourable because maladapted traits tend to have low frequencies. We used computer simulations to study competition between asexual and sexual reproduction, with and without koinophilia. The mutation process created new alleles, most of which were deleterious, but some small fraction was beneficial. With random...

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