Did a bit of research again on how (and why) the Woggle could be asexual after it laid it's egg and thought I'd share! Catch up on the Woggle(s) here: • The Woggles Support my channel and stuff on ...

(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.

Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction. It’s a genetic ...