Only these 6 items will be used by your progeny. To illustrate this, imagine you have a box of random products from a store, and in your life you’ve only ever been allowed to use 6/10 of the items, but every now and then you buy the same box to pass on to someone else (your progeny) and ask someone else (your mate) to reach into the box and pick 6 items at random. The lack of inherited genes from other species leads to a genome maintaining a very limited number of potential protein compositions. The Asari contribute nothing but are dependent on outside contribution they are parasitic. In the case of humanity, that would be genes or lasting genetic mutation for good or for ill, then transferred to successive generations. The process of Asari reproduction has also never been shown to affect the DNA of the foreign parent. There is also no recorded instance of a ‘male’ Asari being born from their normative genetic recombination, which might act as a bearer of Asari DNA to other species. However, having a single receptive sex, the species never contributes DNA back to the various species that they receive recombinative materials from. This is likely due to a lack of selective evolutionary pressures that would dictate a need to enter and acculturate within a foreign species’ population. This results in none of the non-Asari parents’ DNA being passed on, thus it is used to randomize the Asari genome and then discarded. The entire species is female, which is due to their biologically adopting a form of apomictic parthenogenesis, in which the mother is cloned completely but allows for the use of foreign DNA to introduce mutation to the Asari’s own DNA. The Asari are said to be parthenogenetic but never display visible physical traits from their combining species due to no true gene exchange.

They demonstrate evolutionary traits which have only one distinct advantage, to appeal to other species to make up for their own lack of available recombinative diversity, inadvertently driving them to extinction.

It is this paper’s goal to demonstrate that the Asari are a race of dangerous, predatory parasites who have evolved a beautiful symmetric appearance and beatific culture in order to take advantage of other species. However, that is a shallow analysis of the species and their characteristics. At first blush, the Asari are a cultured, benevolent and highly developed race with both significant military and diplomatic advantages.

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