Talk:Parthenogenesis

Rays

The case in the US seems to have produced no pups, and may have been a hoax. However, there is a report of a pup born from an ocellated eagle ray in 2018 . I haven't evaluated the reliability of that one. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 13:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Hm, yes. I think the moral is that we should avoid recency (if not recentism) and wait a year or two with any news story to see whether it actually goes anywhere useful. I'd be minded to remove the stuff altogether now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Rewrite needed

I've downrated this article to C. It contains much uncited material; it's poorly and unevenly written, jumping from sketchy to technical to uncited and back. The illustrations are poorly integrated with the text, and will leave the article's large number of readers none the wiser. Such sources as are cited are mainly highly specialised primary research, which often embodies individual scientists' points of view. The article basically needs a complete rethink and a total rewrite from reliable secondary sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 04:50, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

I have done a little rewriting of the artificial induction section to try to improve clarity, but I don't really know enough about the subject to really sort it out.

Among the other things, I would suggest the medical technology information and perhaps the scientific research information should probably be in other articles. Parthenogenesis is the process of reproducing in a specific way, not of inducing the lab growth of a benign tumour in order to use the resulting cells medically!

FloweringOctopus (talk) 10:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Androgenesis

I thought that Androgenesis has to be in the article so I edited the page. I don't know why Gynogenesis had his own space and Androgenesis do not although each other are literally the opposite. Thanks for reading. Addri Trainer (talk) 02:12, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Athena

Since athena was technically conceived from Metis and Zeus, she wasn't conceived from asexual reproduction. Zeus just swallowed pregnant Metis, and then Athena forced her way out. A better example would be the Hephaestus birth --- convinced solely by Hera (as some sources cite) ~2025-38645-42 (talk) 06:51, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, Athena isn't a good example of parthenogenesis. Grimal says simply "Metis was about to give birth to a daughter when Zeus swallowed it"; Our article Athena does mention one anti-pagan Christian's scornful claim, long after the heyday of classical Greek mythology, that she was said to be the child of Zeus alone, but we'd need a better foundation than that. NebY (talk) 16:33, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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