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.
Is this your source?
Link? Lots of plants are self-fertile and do quite well...
Better example: parthenogenic lizard species.
What makes that example better?
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.
Species of nightshade tend to evolve to become self-fertile, before dying out due to lack of genetic diversity.
Is this your source?
Link? Lots of plants are self-fertile and do quite well...
Better example: parthenogenic lizard species.
What makes that example better?
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.