Imagine a world where mothers don’t need fathers to create life—a world where females alone carry the spark of the next ...

In sexual reproduction—the way most life-forms ... the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...

If asexual reproduction survives at all ... One such asexual organism is the whiptail lizard in the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and South America, which consists only of females who reproduce by ...