(July 10, 2013 at 11:55 am)Rationalman Wrote: How do you know that it does not occur in humans but is not incredibly rare? The fact that it occurs naturally in other animals suggests that it is possible (no matter how improbable) that parthenogenesis can occur in humans.
Well, given that human beings don't have an inbuilt mechanism for replenishing an embryos chromosomes to a diploid state... yeah, I feel pretty good about saying it's impossible in humans without scientific intervention.
But all that is secondary anyway; you know what you'd need for anyone to consider the possibility that a human could do it? Evidence of it. You got any? Or is this just another "anything's possible!" handwave to justify nonsense?
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