According to the reasoning of John Maynard Smith, in a mixed population of asexually reproducing females and sexually reproducing males and females, the number of asexuals should grow at twice the rate of the sexually reproducing individuals because
A) asexuals avoid the cost of producing males by producing offspring that do not need to be inseminated in order to reproduce, essentially only producing females.
B) the cost of sex per individual becomes smaller when sexuals become more rare in the population.
C) under Maynard Smith's model, populations are finite.
D) This scenario does not represent an accurate representation of real populations.
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