That was my understanding too, Terren.
Brent
On 11/5/2015 6:52 PM, Terren Suydam wrote:
The reason sex evolved seems so obvious to me that upon hearing that
there is no consensus, I fear I must be missing something.
Asexual reproduction leads to organisms that can only adapt to
changing environments as quickly as random mutation allows. And
environments change much more quickly than that, I think.
Sexual reproduction leads to a much greater diversity of individuals,
such that there is a much higher probability that at least a few
members of a "species" (I use scare quotes because a species is just
an arbitrary snapshot in time) will survive even if the environment
changes quickly.
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