In asexual organisms, a better analog for species in any case, mutation alone supplies new variation.)

At first, asexual organisms often flourish.

Speciation, the production of a new species-individual by budding, is the analog of organismal birth, particularly the birth of asexual organisms.

Asexual organisms and species also rank as sufficiently faithful.

(Needless to say, I raise no new issue here, but only recycle the perennial question of "the species problem" in asexual organisms.)