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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
That's hardly news. Every species can be traced back to their own single ancestor at one point or another. Though the only useful bit is to trace migration patterns via mutation rates. We trace the female only because we can't trace the male line.
The Sasami bloodline is practically held together with nothing but magic at this point. There is only three people left alive, and only one is female. The lower fertility and shorter lives had taken its toll, even though their enchantments etc kept it going this far way past the point when the offspring should have been a mutated mess as well as being sterile.
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I recall something about a species having a limited 'lifespan' once, though can't exactly think of the details.
This sounds more like dysplastic changes in a cell line after many many many generations of replication.