Playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species
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Playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species
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Re: Playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species
#2Great example of founder effect in action. This population will be studies for as long as humans keep the thread history intact.
Re: Playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species
#3I do wonder how genetic variation is maintained when you have common lineage like this.
Re: Playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species
#4I do wonder how genetic variation is maintained when you have common lineage like this.
It isn't maintained, see "population bottleneck"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Other_an...