Originally posted by WellCookedFetus
sure it does.
Could you reference that thought?
All I could find was ‘Selection will favour hermaphroditism when an organism produces more than half the amount of ova that a female gonochore produces and when this same organism can fertilize more than half as many ova as a male gonochore (Fischer 1985). Whether or not hermaphroditism is stable in any population depends on the benefits and costs impinging on fitness, which are attributed to hermaphroditism. Where the costs outweigh the benefits in any population, hermaphroditism will be displaced as any normal mode of reproduction.’http://aci.mta.ca/Courses/Biology/3...ats/Stewart-Keats/why be an hermaphrodite.htm
This seems to indicate that the mode of reproduction depends on the conditions of the population and does not innately lead to the conclusion that hermaphroditism is unstable.