Darryl Shannon wrote: > >The one problem I see with this set-up is that I don't see how males >benefit evolutionarily from sparking asexual reproduction. > Specially since they are forbidden [a stupid prejudice, in Heinlein's opinion :-)] to spark children in their own daughters. >I would >imagine that males would become more and more indifferent to >sparking...which means fewer and fewer clones until we're back to >normal sexual reproduction. > The difference is that clones are sentient beings, and _they_ select the same men to spark and to bred var kids. So, men who don't try to spark clones in Winter will not generate vars in Summer, and the complex genes that cause a man to be indifferent in Winter will be culled off. Alberto Monteiro
