Anisogamy, Expenditure of Reproductive Effort, and the Optimality of Having Two Sexes

  • Authors:

  • Marina A. Epelman;Stephen Pollock;Brian Netter;Bobbi S. Low

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

No good formal arguments exist for a central question in biology: Why, in species that have sexual reproduction, are there usually only "males" and "females"? We present a nonlinear optimization model that supports the conclusion that having only two sexes maximizes long-run viability.