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The Birds and The Bees

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Flexibility of Insect Behavior

Marlene Zuck: Insects challenge our assumptions about what it means to be male and female. She says a lot of insects don't need to have sex at all to reproduce. Male aphids can make little tiny clones of themselves without ever mating. When they do have sex, even their sperm is more interesting than human sperm.

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