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  • Namely that females can't reproduce males via parthogenesis.

    The Limits of Scientific Civility Academic 2009

  • Everybody cracked up, but then she went on to talk really intelligently about mandatory vegetarianism, boycotts of certain foods, how sugar equals patriarchy, the lofty status of vegans, the link between fruitarianism and parthogenesis, and even our brief mid 70's attempt at something called breathairianism.

    GINNY BATES, THE BEGINNING Maggie Jochild 2007

  • In this case the "possibility" just happened to be one that, while an obviously extreme form of inbreeding, one that was expressed in a post that talks about how great it would be for women to revert to parthogenesis.

    "Sperm cells created from female embryo." Ann Althouse 2008

  • It seems that the Korean fraudster and his team may have unwittingly brought about parthogenesis starting with a human ovocyte?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Science vs. Politics? 2007

  • While snacking on otherworldly fruit genetically engineered in vast orbital orchards tended by robots, I learned that the spacewomen had long ago mastered the science of parthogenesis and kept their species alive through an advanced form of cloning.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Mac 2006

  • Assuming parthogenesis in humans, the child wouldn't be a boy.

    The Hebrew paradox 2006

  • Assuming parthogenesis in humans, the child wouldn't be a boy.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • His investigations dealt with fundamental biological problems concerning the cell, and from 1915 onwards he was a leading contributor to biological journals and was widely quoted, especially on such subjects as fertilization, artificial parthogenesis, cell division, hydration and dehydration in living cells, and the effect of ultraviolet rays in increasing chromosome number in animals and in altering the organization of the egg with special reference to polarity.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • His investigations dealt with fundamental biological problems concerning the cell, and from 1915 onwards he was a leading contributor to biological journals and was widely quoted, especially on such subjects as fertilization, artificial parthogenesis, cell division, hydration and dehydration in living cells, and the effect of ultraviolet rays in increasing chromosome number in animals and in altering the organization of the egg with special reference to polarity.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • His investigations dealt with fundamental biological problems concerning the cell, and from 1915 onwards he was a leading contributor to biological journals and was widely quoted, especially on such subjects as fertilization, artificial parthogenesis, cell division, hydration and dehydration in living cells, and the effect of ultraviolet rays in increasing chromosome number in animals and in altering the organization of the egg with special reference to polarity.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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