• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Which is why the whole thing kinda starts to break down once a species reaches a point where the specimens can survive after they can no longer produce offspring. Like humans.

    • Liz@midwest.social
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      7 months ago

      There’s multiple examples of the same thing in other species. Typically it’s a social animal where passing on accumulated knowledge is a survival strategy. Whales are one example, I’d have to look up the others.