Marmorkrebs are interesting partly because of their parthenogenesis. But if the idea of a on sex species seems strange when it's a female, you ain't seen nothin' yet. The always entertaining Olivia Judson has a column up in the New York Times about a different kind of parthenogenesis: the kind where only the males' genes get into the next generation.
24 September 2008
Men only
Marmorkrebs are interesting partly because of their parthenogenesis. But if the idea of a on sex species seems strange when it's a female, you ain't seen nothin' yet. The always entertaining Olivia Judson has a column up in the New York Times about a different kind of parthenogenesis: the kind where only the males' genes get into the next generation.
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