THE FECUNDITY OFFSET. The conundrum for facultatively sexual organisms: “Why engage in sex if very few of your progeny might even attain the well adapted genotype of either parent? One way to obviate this cost is to have very many progeny, such that at least one approximates the fitness of the most fit parent.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022