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 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/79db2691-21bf-4201-92fb-b0233d6e4aeb.png
Comments
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Poogona@hexbear.net 2 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
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That pretty accurately describes by experience with progesterone, yeah.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Life, uh, finds a way.
Erika3sis@hexbear.net 2 months ago
And when everyone’s female… Muahahahahaha, no one will be.
machinya@hexbear.net 2 months ago
this was not my idea of gender abolition but sure as hell I would welcome it
Butterbee@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Lezards heh
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Are they even females if their species only has one sex?
Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Moronic
Cano@lemm.ee 2 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
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It’s more complicated than that! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis
Cano@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s kind of why I said I’m not a biologist