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After all, a queen bee's eggs can create male drones without being fertilized, and whiptail lizards are famous among biologists and nature-show hosts for not needing males to reproduce. What makes us different...
Lots of creatures already reproduce without sex: whiptail lizards, aphids, dandelions, microscopic rotifers. And, of course, human beings. Since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, in 1978, hundreds of thousands of human beings have been conceived in laboratory glassware rather than...
...worth noting, however, that in much of the biological world, cloning is old hat. There are some species, such as those dandelions and whiptail lizards, that reproduce no other way, and there are many, such as aphids and strawberries, that switch effortlessly between sex and cloning. There are fierce arguments in biological circles about why such species have not taken over the world: since they reproduce so efficiently and do not waste energy producing futile creatures called males...
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