Earth’s earliest animals may have held evolution back because they reproduced asexually, creating low-competition communities that changed very little over time. When environmental pressures pushed them toward sexual reproduction, biodiversity exploded and evolution accelerated dramatically.
Source: ScienceDaily | Evolutionary Biology
ScienceDaily | Evolutionary Biology
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