Rather than keeping on trying to explain this, if you're interested, take a look at Wikipedia's page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction
It explains the problem, and various attempted solutions, including the one Terren mentions below, and others I've mentioned. Nevertheless, it is clear from that article that it is still an open problem. Cheers On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 08:04:56PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > 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. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
