(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.

They don’t need a partner to mate with because they use asexual reproduction. Are there any advantages or disadvantages that you can think of to this type of reproduction? After soliciting answers ...

Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction. It’s a genetic ...

Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual process (e.g., budding ...

If you have little to no desire for sex or don't experience sexual attraction, you might be asexual. Asexuality isn't very common, accounting for an estimated 1.7% of non-heterosexual adults in ...

The discovery that condors are capable of virgin births - formally called parthenogenesis or asexual reproduction - surprised scientists. Virgin births have been recorded in other bird species ...