The evolution of sexual reproduction is a major puzzle because asexual reproduction should be able to outcompete it as every young organism created can bear its own young. This implies that an asexual population has an intrinsic capacity to grow more rapidly with each generation.
Definition of cutting. 1  1 : given to or designed for cutting; especially : sharp, edged. 2  2 : marked by sharp piercing cold cutting winds. 3  3 : inclined or likely to wound the feelings of others especially because of a ruthless incisiveness a cutting remark.  4 : intense, piercing a cutting pain.
transitive verb. 1 : to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument roughly hewn logs. 2 : to cut down by blows of an ax hew a tree. 3 : to give form or shape to with or as if with heavy cutting blows hewed their farms from the wilderness â J. T. Shotwell. intransitive verb. 1 : to make cutting blows (as with an ax)