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Are there evolutionary reasons for reproduction?

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05-30-2010 5:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 99 by Asking
05-29-2010 6:19 AM

To reply simply and briefly to the original point:
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"Survival of the Fittest" works on species, divisions, and alleles... not individuals. Since reproduction ensures the extension of the gene pool (and lack of reproduction would guarantee its death), it is clearly the best evolutionary path to be taken by an organism.
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