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time have selected for flexibility in sex determination to optimize fitness in a heterogenous environment because of the different costs of sex in males and females. Certain environmental conditions differentially affect each sex such that it would be beneficial to become one sex and not the other. This is especially pertinent for sessile organisms that cannot move to a different environment. In plants, for example, female sexual function is often more energetically expensive because once

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