When lizards do it it’s fine, but when I have sex with a clone of myself suddenly I’m “weird” and “misusing funds”
For the Lizadies out there!
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Poogona@hexbear.net 1 year 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
queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
That pretty accurately describes by experience with progesterone, yeah.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Life, uh, finds a way.
Erika3sis@hexbear.net 1 year ago
And when everyone’s female… Muahahahahaha, no one will be.
machinya@hexbear.net 1 year ago
this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Are they even females if their species only has one sex?
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 year 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.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 year 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
Butterbee@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Lezards heh
Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Moronic
Cano@lemm.ee 1 year 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
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
It’s more complicated than that! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis
Cano@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s kind of why I said I’m not a biologist