How far are we from female-only reproduction, technologically speaking? So far we have:
>cloning of female animals without male involvement
>induced parthenogenesis in human eggs (egg keeps all 46 chromosomes from the mother instead of mixing with sperm)
>two female mice having babies together with slight genetic editing of one mouse to give its egg male markers and trick the other egg into thinking it's sperm
I guess my question is, if all men suddenly died via some Y-chromosome targeted virus or something, could a female-only human species survive?
>cloning of female animals without male involvement
>induced parthenogenesis in human eggs (egg keeps all 46 chromosomes from the mother instead of mixing with sperm)
>two female mice having babies together with slight genetic editing of one mouse to give its egg male markers and trick the other egg into thinking it's sperm
I guess my question is, if all men suddenly died via some Y-chromosome targeted virus or something, could a female-only human species survive?