It's a pretty well-known fact that it takes two parents to produce another living animal. One parent contributes one set of chromosomes, the other parent supplies the second set, the genes are mixed at fertilization, and POOF! Offspring capable of carrying on the line of its parents is produced. Count it a win for "genetic diversity."
That's the general gist of "the birds and the bees" in the animal kingdom. Except that one of these namesake creatures defies this conventional wisdom and produces an entire population segment with the, erm, input of just one parent.
See that one big bee in the middle? All elevendy billion of those bees around her were spawned by her.
