The evolutionary advantage of sexual reproduction is that sexual reproduction is our source of genetic variation and can create more complex animals/organisms. In asexual reproduction, no gametes are produced, and the offspring produced are genetically identical to their one parent, therefore, there is no genetic variation being produced. The Red Queen Hypothesis is that organisms in a battle for resources with both continuously reproduce and evolve to try to outcompete the ones they are battling with for resources. This evolutionary hypothesis highlights the advantage of sexual reproduction and the genetic variation it provides. The Red Queen Hypothesis argues that the host & parasitism relationship favors sexual individuals because they produce offspring with a variety of genotypes. Parasites will evolve to infect the common genotype in their hosts' population, and sexual reproduction will allow the host population to also evolve to reproduce offspring that are resistant to ...
