VIRGIN BIRTH

Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθενος parthenos, "virgin", + γενεσις genesis, "birth") describes the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male.

As Jesus' mother is said to have done 2006 ears ago, the biggest lizard species on earth is about to give virgin birth of her own!

If the female has only XX chromosomes and reproduces without a male, shouldn't its offspring all be female? This makes me wonder about Jesus...



Which reminds me of Herland, the 1915 novel by Charlotte Gilman about an oasis of women isolated in the woods for centuries, who have developed their own society and survived for generations through parthenogenesis. The novel's narrator, one of the men who penetrated the secret society, describes these women thusly:

Never, anywhere before, had I seen women of precisely this quality.
Fishwives and market women might show similar strength, but it was coarse
and heavy.  These were merely athletic--light and powerful.  College
professors, teachers, writers--many women showed similar intelligence but
often wore a strained nervous look, while these were as calm as cows,
for all their evident intellect.