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All fun and games until they all go extinct because their environment had a slight variation and they could not adapt to it because they’re all clones with the same genes
^I’m not a biologist please don’t kill me
It’s more complicated than that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis
That’s kind of why I said I’m not a biologist
No, you’re right. It’s mentioned in the Wikipedia article that lack of genetic diversity is a large concern for obligate parthenogenic animals
Was Jesus a lizard? Exhibit A: Parthenogenesis.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
When lizards do it it’s really cool, but then when I have sex with a clone of myself suddenly I’m “weird” and “misusing research funds” and “banned from IKEA”
I talked with a researcher who bluntly called whiptails “a bunch of lesbos” and he wasn’t even being funny, they still sorta kinda have sex to stimulate egg production.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556411/
That study has a great diagram:
Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones
That pretty accurately describes my experience with progesterone, yeah.
Life, uh, finds a way.
And when everyone’s female… Muahahahahaha, no one will be.
this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it
Are they even females if their species only has one sex?
to the lizards - they probably wouldn’t call themselves females if they could
to humans - our definition of female is producing the large gamete so if all those lizards do that then, from our human perspective, they’re female
Moronic
No u!
Good comeback.
