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Sylvurphlame t1_j503s5f wrote

Difficult but not impossible. So with uncountable attempts at reproduction every generation you eventually get viable offspring with differing numbers of chromosomes that can branch off into their own species.

It’s a large numbers game.

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Dro-Darsha t1_j50nokv wrote

It’s not enough to have one or few viable offspring though. Also they have no good way to find each other, so they need to be able to reproduce with the other chromosome count until they reach a critical number

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