Like a Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex | Aarathi Prasad

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Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man. Is this just a myth, or could virgin birth become the way we make babies in the future? In Like a Virgin, biologist Aarathi Prasad explores inconceivable ideas about conception, from the 'Jesus Christ' lizard's ability to self-reproduce (it walks on water, too) to the hunt for a real-life virgin mother among geneticists in the 1950s. Prasad then transports us to the maverick laboratories that today are inventing the equivalent of 'non-sexual selection,' from egg-fertilizing computer chips to artificial wombs for men.…