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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's kind of why I said I'm not a biologist

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

No, you're right. It's mentioned in the Wikipedia article that lack of genetic diversity is a large concern for obligate parthenogenic animals

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