Dear Keiva,

But you sounded so terrifically clinical in your hypothesizing! Listen to yourself:

Concept-spinning here, and without any LIU, I would think the key point is that the DNA from two distinct individuals is combined, so that the offspring has DNA which each parent (individually) lacked, and thus brings together a new and potentially valuable combination of DNA. With asexual reproduction, the offspring would generally be a clone of its parent (except for mutations), thus minimizing the diversity from which natural selection (using that phrase in the biological sense) could select.

Now that's just darned great stuff there! Just use the same voice when clinically describing the mating habits of the hippopotamus! The cold, direct, clinical eye and no nonsense. See? After all, the hippo's just a gigantic, more complex version of the paramecium, hmmmmm?

Best regards,
Dub