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What's the matter, Don? You look worried.
發生什么事了，唐？你看起來很擔憂。
Well, Yael, you know how people are always predicting that one day women will be able to have babies without men?
嗯，雅艾爾，人們通常預測，如果有一天沒有男人，女人也可以自己生孩子，
It turns out that some species of the Whiptail lizard have figured out how to do this and completely eliminated the male sex.
你知道是怎么回事嗎？事實證明鞭尾蜥蜴已經做到這一點，并將雄性蜥蜴完全消滅掉了。
You mean that the species is all female?
你是說所有的鞭尾蜥蜴都是雌性?
Exactly. The females have the ability to lay eggs that hatch and grow into healthy lizards without needing to be fertilized by a male.
正是這樣。雌性鞭尾蜥蜴能不通過受精就產卵并孵化出健康的小蜥蜴。
The offspring are exact and complete genetic duplicates of the mothers.
而其后代的基因與母親的基因完全一致。
So the females are cloning themselves.
那么說雌性蜥蜴是在克隆自己。
That's right. And if that weren't enough, the female lizards take turns role-playing.
說得對。如果那樣還不夠的話，雌性蜥蜴會輪流進行角色扮演。
They perform a mating ritual in which one lizard acts like the male, and the second lizard acts like the female.
她們進行一個交配儀式，其中一個扮演雄性，另一個扮演雌性。
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