Unless the sexual couple produces twice as many offspring
as the asexual individual, there will be a cost of sex.
Asexuals: The unit of reproduction is the individual
Sexuals: The unit of reproduction is the couple
The "sexual female propagates her genome,
or any given element of her genome,
only half as efficiently as the asexual female"
ó Bell 1982
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