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Comment author: DanielLC 22 October 2013 05:26:11AM 3 points [-]

Evolutionary suicide seems to be someone's theoretical idea. Is there any evidence that it happens in evolution in reality?

Species of nightshade tend to evolve to become self-fertile, before dying out due to lack of genetic diversity.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 22 October 2013 10:47:03PM 1 point [-]

Is this your source?

Comment author: Lumifer 22 October 2013 05:46:30AM 1 point [-]

Link? Lots of plants are self-fertile and do quite well...

Comment author: kalium 23 October 2013 09:27:05PM 0 points [-]

Better example: parthenogenic lizard species.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 29 October 2013 04:19:49PM 2 points [-]

What makes that example better?

Comment author: kalium 29 October 2013 07:37:02PM 0 points [-]

Damn it. It was going to be a better example because I was going to give the actual genera (Aspidoscelis and Cnemidophorus) of whiptail lizards whose species keep going down this path and then I got distracted and didn't do that. Oops.

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