On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 02:05:53PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > >Biological theory says that sexual reproduction should halve the > >fitness of the organism as compared with asexual (or parthenogenetic) > >reproduction, so asexual reproduction should be the norm (as it is in > >bacteria). > > But does it halve the reproductive chances of a gene; or does it > give it more chances of survival? >
Halves it, because its a 50/50 lottery whether the gene from the female or the gene from the male is expressed in the offspring. Of course, the same logic would indicate that incest should be very evolutionary advantageous - which gives a potent clue as to what's going on. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
