Re: It still doesn’t seem to answer why females don’t switch to parthenogenesis and block all male advances. But maybe you can detect something I missed?
The standard theories of the evolution of sex explain that. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction
Here’s a recent NS news article on the topic of EoSex—claiming recent developments:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227121.600-has-the-mystery-of-sex-been-explained-at-last.html
Thanks! Upvoted. That’s much more interesting than the article I posted.
In case anyone is interested, I posted a brief critique of that article here:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.bio.evolution/browse_thread/thread/43ed69f28e2b3173#
Re: It still doesn’t seem to answer why females don’t switch to parthenogenesis and block all male advances. But maybe you can detect something I missed?
The standard theories of the evolution of sex explain that. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction
Here’s a recent NS news article on the topic of EoSex—claiming recent developments:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227121.600-has-the-mystery-of-sex-been-explained-at-last.html
Thanks! Upvoted. That’s much more interesting than the article I posted.
In case anyone is interested, I posted a brief critique of that article here:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.bio.evolution/browse_thread/thread/43ed69f28e2b3173#