I like how the article starts but I think it got lost a bit in hypothetical and anecdotes towards the end. Not holding it against the article though. As the article rightly points out, anything involving sex drags in biases as well.
I wonder how convergent evolution [0] fits into this? Maybe one form of reproduction leaves a large niche open for another type of reproduction to fill in.
Could it be that there was sexual reproduction first and asexual reproduction came later? We always assume the other way around. But maybe conditions were initially always stressful and only after conditions improved (I am thinking of conditions on Earth when these single cells organisms were evolving) did asexual reproduction start.
Last question, is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce? I had never really though about it until now.
I wonder how convergent evolution [0] fits into this? Maybe one form of reproduction leaves a large niche open for another type of reproduction to fill in.
Could it be that there was sexual reproduction first and asexual reproduction came later? We always assume the other way around. But maybe conditions were initially always stressful and only after conditions improved (I am thinking of conditions on Earth when these single cells organisms were evolving) did asexual reproduction start.
Last question, is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce? I had never really though about it until now.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution