WHY DOES SEX EXIST?
In the context of the hierarchy of evolutionary computation, it’s odd that mitochondria in eukaryotes fulfill the male strategy of energy production within cells, but they’re inherited from the female. The perception it’s an oddity only makes sense when we see the emergence of sexes. Because sexes divide labor. And the emergence of sexes only makes sense in a constantly changing and ‘hostile’ environment. (Blame god it’s his idea.)
1. Sex Evolves When Selection Changes Over Time
2. Sex Evolves When Selection Changes Over Space
3. Sex Evolves When Organisms Are Less Adapted to Their Environment (Stress)
4. Sex Evolves When Populations Are Finite (Lack of Resistance)
In other words, sexes and sex increase evolutionary computation in time when under pressure. So sex defeats time. And that’s why it exists.
Or stated otherwise, asexuality is dangerous to organizational complexity.
–“…even though asexual lineages do arise, they rarely persist for long periods of evolutionary time. Among flowering plants, for example, predominantly asexual lineages have arisen over 300 times, yet none of these lineages is very old.”—
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-06 09:53:06 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1710231699743703040
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