I understand that not self-fertilizing is an adaptive benefit for plants (& all living organisms) but I don't have a scenario that shows how the benefit works.
Given a population w/genetic variations some tiny percentage of which are beneficial in the habitat, why is it such a huge boost to survival to mix your genes?
It is precisely because beneficial adaptations are rare? If beneficial mutations were common would self cloning and fertilizing. be more common? #question#biology#evolution
