This sexless word called Parthenogenesis

The Komodo dragon lives in little islands and therefore can be quite lonely. If the female does not find a mate, she may die and leave a dragonless island. Therefore this amazing reptile lays eggs which hatch to produce young, without a mate. This is called parthenogenesis. The young are all male. They grow up and mate with her to produce more genetically diverse and sexually fertilized eggs.

Insects, reptiles and fish including sharks make use of this to keep going. With mankind against these creatures, they may all start doing this more often to keep their species going.

It is sad that birds and mammals - the warm blooded creatures, do not have this ability. I wonder why? The answer is blowing in the wind.....

Language

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'

---Lewis Carrol Through the looking glass

Which brings us to the recent propaganda for the development of a local version of English and the ads with popular personalities saying that we can talk "English - our way". This is a good initiative to be supported. But the promotion of our own languages like Sinhala and Tamil is also becoming necessary with all the Montessori schools and the "International Schools" popping up all over the country teaching in English.