Lulu Miller

So you know how we're often taught that you need a male and a female to have a baby?

Yeah.

Aphids can can reproduce without males.

They can make all female societies where they reproduce.

And that is called pathogenesis, where the females in a pinch or just like for most of the year, they just they can just reproduce without males.

They basically like shoot out clones of themselves and become these big reptiles.

wonderful communities of daughters and sisters and cousins and grandmas and hang out.

And some of them dance.

The ones we're talking about, woolly aphids are also called boogie woogie aphids.

And I just think what I love about that is like,

Nature is what you were saying with infinity.

It's so much wilder than we think.

It's like, yeah, in many species you do need a male or female, but like you don't have to.

And we've seen that in the California condor and we've seen it in certain snakes.

Like in a pinch, there is a pathway to create new life.

Like that is I think more people need to be talking about parthenogenesis.

Like the fact that that happens.

can happen yeah that alone is amazing like the pathway is there evolutionarily yes in bugs yes even in vertebrates in in in vertebrates in birds and in reptiles and so i just think like that is so wild and like i just why is everyone not just like walking around every morning like parthenogenesis can happen so that's your aphid fact

I love being on this planet with you.

Thank you.