RE: Attack of The Clones: Animal Parthenogenesis

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Attack of The Clones: Animal Parthenogenesis

in ecology •  7 years ago 

I wonder if some clone will ever evolve back into a sexually reproducing species. Either way that rate of growth is incredible.

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

The problem here isn't the odds against that happening, but the odds of such a mutation then meeting another identical mutation of the opposite sex. The bigger the population, the better the odds.