Quote (Crunkt @ Jun 7 2023 10:29am)
Makes sense for gators considering the males eat the babies and the females all the fuckin' time it became an evolutionary advantage to fertilize your own eggs every once in a while
I eman I fertilize my eggs twice daily but you dont see me braggin
It's effectively a way to clone all your genes when you can't find a mate.
In the short term it's a perfect strategy, but in the long term your offspring don't evolve as quickly as with mating and with recombination of genes, so it's disfavored in the long run.