http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/09/what-the-substrate-tells/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/09/what-the-substrate-tells/#comment-46615 jb Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:16:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=18358#comment-46615 Slightly off topic maybe, but do you have any preferred argument for why dioecy is so strongly favored over hermaphroditism in animal species? Argument explaining the existence of sex itself are fairly clear, but I've never seen a clear argument for why there should be an advantage to having two mating types, only one of which can actually generate offspring. Slightly off topic maybe, but do you have any preferred argument for why dioecy is so strongly favored over hermaphroditism in animal species? Argument explaining the existence of sex itself are fairly clear, but I’ve never seen a clear argument for why there should be an advantage to having two mating types, only one of which can actually generate offspring.

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