A rising star of pop science investigates whether virgin birth might be possible in the In Like a Virgin, biologist and science writer Aarathi Prasad examines. What if you could have children without sex? It might sound like the plot of a dystopian novel, but biologist Aarathi Prasad thinks it’ll soon be. Editorial Reviews. Review. “Think of her as the female equivalent of Brian Cox making science Like a Virgin: How Science Is Redesigning the Rules of Sex – Kindle edition by Aarathi Prasad. Download it once and read it on your Kindle.
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However, an embryo could still be created that mixed the DNA of two females, a process that has been tried successfully in mice. Overall a good read and recommended, but there seemed to girgin a fair bit of repetition and some strategic editing correction would have prasadd improved the work. By her 30s, she was noticing how many women, herself included, were struggling to find the right partner or chose between work and family.
Interesting resd, and fresh look at the future of human reproduction. Opinion Laughing Matters Laughter is aartahi constant, but what makes us laugh is not. A single mother, Dr. Asrathi, but that sounds like the roots of communism in its rawest form – sacrificing individual “good” for the “good” of the masses.
She was created by “constructing an egg out of material vurgin one mature egg, and one immature egg,” Prasad writes. If there was a viable, entirely healthy alternative, would women necessarily choose to go through pregnancy?
In fact, he gives the example of males though infertile with an XX structure. Read more Read less. A news site you’ll actually love. Despite my initial misgivings, I did take on board much of what was azrathi and it certainly made me think about things in rather a different way. The same field of technology would enable gay couples to have children created from both their DNA, and make it just as easy for a man to become a single parent as a woman.
How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex. That’s true in some likd, but what about positive influences in the womb, the influence a healthy, happy mother has on a growing foetus? Like A Virgin is an incredibly fascinating non-fiction book about how a virgin birth could be possible. It’s this vanity of humans to think of themselves as special, as being at the height of evolution.
In addressing likd problem, scientists have gestated wobbegong embryos wobbegongs are similar to grey nurses, but not endangeredfor increasingly long periods in an artificial womb, with great success.
You might want to avoid reading through to the end if you have a hard time tolerating change, because the book heads in the direction of gestation outside the female body. Return to Book Page.
Like a Virgin: How Science Is Redesigning The Rules Of Sex by Aarathi Prasad
No conclusive evidence will ever be made, however, because she has been dead for thousands of years. An incredibly fascinating look at how humans are created–either naturally or through science. Customers who bought this item also bought. Please email us at support ozy. It opens ones eyes to the sheer width of evolutionary solutions which have developed. Also, this is not a book to tackle when you’re feeling tired as a lot of the sentences have a few too many clauses for comfort.
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Amanda Khan rated it it was amazing May 23, So does all this spell the end of sex? Previously a cancer genetics researcher at Imperial College London, she subsequently moved into the worlds of science communication and policy, in areas including passage of the human-animal chimaera stem-cell bill in the UK Parliament.
In Like a Virgin, biologist Aarathi Prasad looks at inconceivable ideas about conception, from the ‘Jesus Christ’ lizard’s ability to self-reproduce it walks on water, too to the tabloid hunt virbin a real life virgin mother by geneticists in the s. The book was interesting to say the least.
Book Review: “Like a Virgin”, by Aarathi Prasad
Review “Think of her as the female equivalent of Brian Cox making science accessible for the masses The book ends with discussing the ethics of being solo parents via artificial means and challenging the traditional ways of human sexual reproduction.
Enter your mobile number or email address below and we’ll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. This area of technology would allow a woman to procreate alone too, using two of her own eggs, an idea Prasad laughs off as megalomaniacal when we discuss it initially.
Refresh and try again. The world is a much weirder place than I imagined after reading this book. I received a free copy of this book as a Goodreads Giveaway. I know of some where women and men live separately but none were women have disappeared. It disintegrates into a patchwork description of various laboratories research currently in progress and other topics loosely connected to human reproduction in the 21rst century.
Loading comments… Trouble loading? Prasad recognises that many people find these ideas and technologies enormously problematic, but takes a scientist’s view. The section of the book focusing on the present day is full of truly astonishing facts about animal and human reproductive biology.
However, as the book approaches the section on modern pioneering research, the narrative is starting to flag.