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What Dad didnt tell you about the birds and bees. - By William...

montrealcowboyx rated 16 months ago
We leave a few things out. The truth about babies is that sometimes, there's no sperm. There's just an egg, but a baby hatches anyway. Many bees don't have daddies. Neither do some birds. It's called parthenogenesis--literally, virgin birth. We're finding more and more anima...

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montrealcowboyx rated 16 months ago
We leave a few things out. The truth about babies is that sometimes, there's no sperm. There's just an egg, but a baby hatches anyway. Many bees don't have daddies. Neither do some birds. It's called parthenogenesis--literally, virgin birth. We're finding more and more animals that can reproduce this way, and we're learning how to engineer it in others.