Re: Story books, rewriting history
Posted by Amaranth Rose on Mar 11, 2002 at 14:37
(63.170.62.57)Re: Story books, rewriting history (Paul)
THINK. Did it say that the ONLY species exhibiting virgin birth is this lizard?
The leap from "this species does this" to "this species and only this species does this" is a significant logical failure.
Your thought processes may bear re-examining. It is not the article which is at fault.
Any number of species can be shown to have reproduced parthenogenetically at some point. In fact, many mammals and even humans can if you give them the right dose of Colchicine at the right time; the Australian Aborigines knew this and took advantage of it.