(November 26, 2013 at 3:26 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:(November 26, 2013 at 3:24 pm)TheBeardedDude Wrote: Would a more intelligent form of reproduction not simply be budding or asexual reproduction?
Not unless we were programmed to mutate enough to be different genetically from whoever we budded off from. Asexual reproduction leads to homogenized genetic susceptible to diseases. That's why bananas and apples are sprayed to hell. They reproduce asexually.
There are plenty of species that reproduce aseuxally that have found ways around the genetic homogeneity (such as lateral gene transfer and of course, you still have mutations).
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