Sexual vs Asexual Reproduction - advantages of each?

• benefits of asexual reproduction:

  1. Only one parent required 
  2. More time and energy efficient as do not need to find a mate
  3. Faster
  4. Many identical offspring can be produced in favourable environment
• benefits of sexual reproduction:

  1. produces variation in offspring

  Natural selection can be sped up by humans in selective breeding to increase food production

  If the environment changes, variation gives a survival advantage by natural selection (evolution).