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galilette
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The offspring of a virgin birth are not exact clones of their mother but are genetically very similar, and are always female.

What's the source of the difference?

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acockworkorangereply
mander.xyz

I'm no biologist, but asexual reproduction is the first and oldest form. I'll wager there's a mechanism to introduce a small number of random mutations in the code.

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