C. elegans, one of the simplest known animals, has hermaphrodites and males, with hermaphrodites massively outnumbering the males.
Perhaps being male is a strategy to make others bear your offspring, while you don't have to, and after a certain proportion of males in the population emerges, you might as well be female instead of hermaphroditic?
C. elegans, one of the simplest known animals, has hermaphrodites and males, with hermaphrodites massively outnumbering the males.
Perhaps being male is a strategy to make others bear your offspring, while you don't have to, and after a certain proportion of males in the population emerges, you might as well be female instead of hermaphroditic?