No Sex Needed: All-Female Lizard Species Cross Their Chromosomes to Make Babies

Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 20:49 in Biology & Nature

Since the 1960s scientists have known that some species of whiptail lizards need a male even less than a fish needs a bicycle. This all-lady lizard species (of the Aspidoscelis genus) from Mexico...

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