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I haven't figured out if it is all sharks or not, but apparently in many previous observances the offspring have only been half clones of the mother. The genes all come from the mother, the offspring just ends up with less genetic diversity than the mother. The technical term is "automictic parthenogenesis". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Automictic_par...
parent maxerickson 9 years ago

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