Scientists Study a Species That Has Survived Through Cloning Alone
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Scientists Study a Species That Has Survived Through Cloning Alone
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The whole evolutionary mystery around why some organisms stay alive and don’t bother with sex, has been driving biologists, worldwide, nuts for a long time. And when people look closer at asexual lifeforms like the ancient nematode Diploscapter pachys, it starts to feel less like a riddle and more like a hidden mechanism. These tough little things seem to dodge that usual genetic slowdown stuff, and they pull off self replication for the long run, like it’s no big deal, self cloning and all.