For the Lizadies out there!
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 08 Sep 2024 16:26
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Cano@lemm.ee on 08 Sep 2024 16:47 next collapse

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 on 08 Sep 2024 16:52 collapse

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

Cano@lemm.ee on 08 Sep 2024 17:00 next collapse

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

Contramuffin@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2024 17:18 collapse

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

massive_bereavement@fedia.io on 08 Sep 2024 18:52 collapse

Was Jesus a lizard? Exhibit A: Parthenogenesis.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Erika3sis@hexbear.net on 08 Sep 2024 17:14 next collapse

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

machinya@hexbear.net on 09 Sep 2024 20:37 collapse

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

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 2024 17:43 next collapse

Life, uh, finds a way.

Poogona@hexbear.net on 08 Sep 2024 18:39 next collapse

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.

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

That study has a great diagram: <img alt="" src="https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e7473d7c-b0ce-463f-888f-5725f92bd792.jpeg">

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

queermunist@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 2024 20:50 collapse

That pretty accurately describes my experience with progesterone, yeah.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 2024 21:47 next collapse

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”

Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2024 22:03 next collapse

Moronic

Shard@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2024 22:30 collapse

No u!

Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world on 12 Sep 2024 13:11 collapse

Good comeback.

Butterbee@beehaw.org on 09 Sep 2024 00:14 next collapse

Lezards heh

Jolteon@lemmy.zip on 09 Sep 2024 04:35 collapse

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

shneancy@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 2024 07:24 next collapse

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

flora_explora@beehaw.org on 09 Sep 2024 08:17 collapse

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.

Philosophically speaking, sex as a category is just a way of abstraction for us to better understand the world. But it is just that, a simplified view on the world, a social construct.