The Benefits of Variation

variation is a way of generating variation that then selection can act on. But it's allso risky, because you will also create things that weren't actually what was needed in the environment right now. So one of thes a couple of concepts that i run into a lot reading about a sort of theoretical papers on the evolution of sex are the red quee hypothesis and muller's ratchet. Both are related in o innocence, because both are at some level about the kind of gens that you need to live in the current environment.