Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man.
This is her first book..
A single mother, she previously worked in research genetics at Imperial College, London.
She has appeared on television and radio, including as host of the BBC documentary \'The Quest for a Virgin Birth,\' and written for publications such as Wired, New Scientist, and The Guardian.
Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and Science writer.
This adventurous romp to the frontiers of reproductive Science will forever change the way you think about sex and parenthood.
Prasad then transports us to the maverick laboratories that today are inventing the equivalent of \'non-sexual selection,\' from egg-fertilizing computer chips to artificial wombs for men.
Is this just a myth, or could virgin birth become the way we make babies in the future? In Like a Virgin, biologist Aarathi Prasad explores inconceivable ideas about conception, from the \'Jesus Christ\' lizard\'s ability to self-reproduce (it walks on water, too) to the hunt for a real-life virgin mother among geneticists in the 1950s.
Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man
