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What are the benefits of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?
Sexually reproducing is much more advantageous than asexually reproducing. For starters, it produces twice as many offspring with the same amount of resources used. That means that on average, sexually reproducing organisms will have twice as many children and thus twice their genes represented in future generations.
This is because asexually reproducing organisms are only able to produce identical offspring. Whereas sexually reproducing organisms are capable of producing both genetically similar offspring, and dissimilar offspring.
In addition, sex provides an opportunity for organisms to diversify their gene pool. This is because sexual reproduction allows sexually reproducing organisms to combine their genes with those of another individual and produce offspring containing a mixture of both parents' genes.
This provides a powerful survival advantage because it enables sexually reproducing organisms to adapt more rapidly to environmental changes. Sexual reproduction allows sexually reproducing organisms to produce offspring that have advantageous genetic traits, which may allow them to survive better in new environments.
The fact that sex provides a powerful survival advantage is clearly evidenced by the fact that all known sexually reproducing organisms on Earth have survived. In contrast, many of the earliest asexual organisms have gone extinct.
And even more compelling is the fact that there are no known asexual organisms in existence today. Only sexually reproducing organisms exist on Earth.