loughlin{at}mindspring.com (Pat Loughlin) wrote in message
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> Does anyone know why there are not more hermaphrodite species,
> according to evolutionary theory?  Seems like a hermaphrodite species
> could achieve most of the advantages of a diverse gene pool (assuming
> the individual can not mate with itself) while being much more
> efficient with resources.

Why more efficient?  Surely specialists are more efficient than generalists?
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