asexual parthenogenesis:
Each seed will grow, without being fertilized, into an exact genetic
copy of its parent plant.
Sex has some obvious advantages. For a species adapting to a chang-
ing environment, "the myriad natural variations that sex produces can
spell the difference between success and failure, survival and extinc-
tion." The chief disadvantage of sex is uncertainty. Because male and
female each contribute half of their offspring's genes, the result can be
the worst...