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Ah, so as this Independent article on the same subject makes clear, the idiot was the journalist, not the curator of the Zoological Society. It seems the theory was that the parthogenesis ability evolved in the normal fashion and the _reproductive advantage_ was that a female who evolved this ability swam to / was washed [...]

I find it deeply worrying and hard to believe that either a science journalist with the BBC or the curator of the Zoological Society has no idea how evolution works, but it would appear to be the case. Spotted this gem in this BBC story about parthogenesis in giant lizards:
“[The curator of the Zoological Society] [...]