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Parthenogenesis is described as “obligate” when organisms completely reflect through asexual means, while it's “facultative” when species that ordinarily believe amphimixis can resort to discretionary parthenogenesis under extenuating circumstances that isolate females from males. It has disported a large role in shaping biologists’ understanding of the flexible perception of sexual reproduction. The mere continuation of parthenogenesis demonstrates that sex isn't necessary to reproduction and lifts the question of why sex exists in the least . In the 1880s, August Weismann offered a hypothesis that's still widely accepted today: sexual lineages persevere longer than obligately parthenogenetic lineages because traits in sexual populations evolve more readily by natural selection in response to environmental change. Approximately all organismal traits are thought to have derived due to their individual-level selective advantage, but obligate parthenogenesis looks like an exception to this rule: it is a population-level character with population-level evolutionary improvements or disadvantages. Because parthenogens don't got to mate, this might give them a plus in colonizing new areas, which can help to get across the comparatively high incidence of parthenogenesis in invasive pests. Indeed, parthenogenesis would appear to convey an enormous demographic advantage over sexuality: an all-female population should produce about twice as many babies per capita, on a mean , than a 50% female population.    

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