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In reply to the discussion: Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]FarCenter
(19,429 posts)50. All-Female Lizard Species Created in Lab
Researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard, mimicking a process that has happened naturally in the past but has never been directly observed.
Its recreating the events that lead to new species, said cell biologist Peter Baumann of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, whose new species is described May 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It relates to the question of how these unisexual species arise in the first place.
Female-only species that reproduce by cloning themselves a process called parthenogenesis, in which embryos develop without fertilization were once considered dead-end evolutionary flukes. But in the last decade, unisexuality has been found in more than 80 groups of fish, amphibian and reptiles. It might not be such a dead end after all.
Best-known among all unisexual species are Aspidoscelis, the whiptail lizards of southwestern North America, of which 7 of 12 species are unisexual. Genetic studies suggest their unisexuality emerged from historical unions of two sexually-reproducing lizards belonging to closely-related species, the hybrid offspring of which possessed mutations needed for parthenogenesis.
Its recreating the events that lead to new species, said cell biologist Peter Baumann of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, whose new species is described May 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It relates to the question of how these unisexual species arise in the first place.
Female-only species that reproduce by cloning themselves a process called parthenogenesis, in which embryos develop without fertilization were once considered dead-end evolutionary flukes. But in the last decade, unisexuality has been found in more than 80 groups of fish, amphibian and reptiles. It might not be such a dead end after all.
Best-known among all unisexual species are Aspidoscelis, the whiptail lizards of southwestern North America, of which 7 of 12 species are unisexual. Genetic studies suggest their unisexuality emerged from historical unions of two sexually-reproducing lizards belonging to closely-related species, the hybrid offspring of which possessed mutations needed for parthenogenesis.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/all-female-lizards/
A little genetic engineering of humans should do the trick.
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Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]
Whovian
Dec 2012
OP
Women, religions, races... there is oppression far too often but inroads have been made.
Whovian
Dec 2012
#111
It comes from the book Global Woman. I don't have the specific page number handy.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#15
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KitSileya
Dec 2012
#46
I posted a link to a thread I made the other day in an edit to the previous response.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#29
History is more than merely one thing, regardless of what bumper-stickers may say.
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#64
If you like history, you should be able to quickly research such things yourself. India is
Zorra
Dec 2012
#38
Well the links I provided did offer some history. I didn't expect to have to spell it out.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#73
Shocking! But you do, of course, realize that no example that you post will ever be good enough, no
Zorra
Dec 2012
#72
One of the most common themes in Western art is the "rape of the Sabine women."
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#136
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Dec 2012
#39
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#127
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#109
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LanternWaste
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