"The Week" magazine, March 7, 2008, has a short article on page 12 mentioning Neil Shubin of the New York Times and his article about Mother Nature.
"When it comes to defining sexual deviance, said Neil Shubin, Mother Nature does a lousy job. In arguments over such moral issues as cloning and same-sex unions, we humans often cite what we believe to be "natural," But if you examine nature closely, "the diversity of reproductive strategies seen in animals staggers the imagination." Some creatures clone themselves, some engage in homosexuality, and others switch genders. The Komodo dragon, for example, can occasionally create off spring through eggs hatched without the sperm of a daddy dragon. These "virgin births," observed in zoos, are a from of clothing,. Several species of fish also can reproduce by cloning, which is an ancient strategy that "species use to survive in a dangerous world...."
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