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They aren't human they're just a pack of Fe-Fe-Females!" This was after he had to admit their parthenogenesis. "I wish our grandfatherly minds had managed as well," said Jeff. "Do you really think it's to our credit that we have muddled along with all our poverty and disease and the like? They have peace and plenty, wealth and beauty, goodness and intellect. Pretty good people, I think!"
Not to speak of the confusion of moods and tenses, the phrase "to form a character" has been so long appropriated to another meaning than that which it has here, that the sense of the passage vacillates unpleasantly. He tells us that Swift was "under engagement to Will Frankland to christen the baby his wife is near bringing to bed." Parthenogenesis is a simple matter to this.
When the discussion of human social institutions is taken up in Part II, the obvious assumption will always be that these rest upon human biology, and that we must not let our minds wander into vague analogies concerning birds, spiders or crustacea. Loeb, Jacques. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization. Chicago, 1913. Loeb, Jacques. The Organism as a Whole.
The queen bee naturally and regularly lays a certain number of unfertilised eggs, and these produce, not females as do the unfertilised eggs of plant-lice, etc., but male bees the drones and it is only from such eggs that the drones of bees are born. These are the chief cases of regular and natural parthenogenesis, but there are others which might be enumerated.
Especially is this true with respect to sex, which they do not possess. Parthenogenesis includes very diverse and anomalous cases. The term signifies the ability of females to reproduce in such species for one or a number of generations without males.
And yet my conscious self had caught it in an imperfect sort of a way after all, for from the moment that my dream had left me I had been composed, and easy in my mind that all would be well. I wish some one would write a book about dreams and parthenogenesis for that the two are part and parcel of the same story a brood of folly without father bred I cannot doubt.
There is of course the further theory, entertained by some, that virgin-parturition a kind of Parthenogenesis has as a matter of fact occasionally occurred among mortal women, and even still does occur.
Crows, Indian, feeding their blind companions. Cruelty of savages to animals. Crustacea, parasitic, loss of limbs by female; prehensile feet and antennae of; male, more active than female; parthenogenesis in; secondary sexual characters of; amphipod, males sexually mature while young; auditory hairs of. Crystal worn in the lower lip by some Central African women. Cuckoo fowls.
The difference of sex merely corresponds to duplex and simplex conditions of nucleus, but it is curious that the simplex condition in the gametes occurs in both ova and sperms. In Daphnia and Rotifers the facts are different. Parthenogenesis occurs when food supply is plentiful and temperature high.
The great works of Herold on the evolution of a caterpillar; of Lyonet on the anatomy of the Cossus; of Newport on that of the Sphinx; and of Siebold on the parthenogenesis of insects, are proofs that the moths have engaged the attention of some of the master minds in science.
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