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This fish species survived 100,000 years without males. Scientists thought it should be long dead – but it's thriving - BBC

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without males, revealing new clues to how genomes stay healthy.

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When DNA is copied, explains Speijer, "there are always errors". In sexual species, these mistakes can be shuffled out of the gene pool, but in clonal species, they are passed down over and over agai… [+164 chars]

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