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
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:
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Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones
That pretty accurately describes my experience with progesterone, yeah.
this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it
