Spiny Touhous Cloning

To arms Touhous!

Individual Cloning

It’s a novel escape route that makes a mockery of the status of the individual: if you run the risk of being eaten, just clone yourself. That is the approach taken by the larvae of sand dollars – marine animals related to sea urchins.

Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food, Newscientist, 13 March 2008,

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