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The Sex Habit in Plants and Animals

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Measuring Selection in Natural Populations

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics ((LNBM,volume 19))

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This paper is concerned with the selective forces responsible for the evolution of breeding systems, and in particular with hermaphroditism as opposed to dioecy, with selfing as opposed to outcrossing, and with apomixis as opposed to sexual reproduction. It was written with plants in mind, but many of the arguments are relevant also to animals.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Genetics, Ny Munkegade, Aarhus Universitet, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Freddy B. Christiansen  & Tom M. Fenchel  & 

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Smith, J.M. (1977). The Sex Habit in Plants and Animals. In: Christiansen, F.B., Fenchel, T.M. (eds) Measuring Selection in Natural Populations. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93071-3_19

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