For the Lizadies out there!

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• Cano@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s more complicated than that! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

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    • Cano@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When lizards do it it’s fine, but when I have sex with a clone of myself suddenly I’m “weird” and “misusing funds”

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• Poogona@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I talked with a resaearcher 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.

  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556411/

  That study has a great diagram: Image

  Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That pretty accurately describes by experience with progesterone, yeah.

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• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Life, uh, finds a way.

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• Erika3sis@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And when everyone’s female… Muahahahahaha, no one will be.

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  • machinya@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it

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• Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are they even females if their species only has one sex?

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, female and male are defined based on their gonads. So yes, these are females because they produce egg cells. There are also animals that have more than two sexes or have sexes that change over time, or that are even weirder. But in all these cases, how we classify their sex is by their gonads.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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• Butterbee@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lezards heh

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• Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Moronic

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  • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No u!

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    • Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good comeback.

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