There are several costs to sexual reproduction It can be

Last updated: 12/1/2023

There are several costs to sexual reproduction It can be energetically expensive to find a mate you can get a disease from a mate that might render you infertile or kill you and then on top of that you ONLY pass on half of your DNA Why not just asexually reproduce Well the benefits of sexual reproduction typically out weight the costs What is an EVOLUTIONARY benefit of sexual reproduction I don t want to hear about how fun you think sex is or how happy it makes you those are not evolutionary benefits