Paracelsus
paradox of sex
parasites
Ascaris megalocephala
fetus-in-fetu
Ichthyophonus hoferi
malarial
Mycoplasma genitalium
Plasmodium
Wolbachia
parents, single
parthenogenesis
in human beings (article)
penis
PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis)
PGS (pre-implantation genetic screening)
phenylthiourea
PhilipII, King of Macedon
placenta
eating
Plantades, François de
Plato
Poitiers, Diane de
pregnancy
pregnancy hormone (hCG)
premature babies
brains
breathing problems
Charlotte Wyatt
Priore, Giuseppe Del
progesterone
protein
Queen Charlotte’s Hospital
rats
recessive disorders
Red Queen hypothesis
Renaissance
reproduction
advantages of sexual
and cultural values
and female’s age
and male’s age
declining rates
first life forms
future trends
mothers in their fifties
pre-17th century ideas on
post-17th century ideas on
pre-teen pregnancies
recipe for life
spermless
Royal College of Midwives
Ruakura Agriculture Centre
Savage, Caroline
Schenck, Professor Leopold
schizophrenia
semen
sex, problems for women
sharks
Sheffield University
Sherman, Jerome K.
Siebold, Karl Ernst von
Silber, Dr Sherman
Silver-Russell syndrome
Sims, James Marion
skin layers
Smellie, William
Smith, A.D.
Smith, Richard
snakes
Soranus
sperm
artificial
buying
considered parasite
creation of
donors
early research into
freezing/storing
from stem cells
internet sales
imaginary people in
legal regulations
rapid creation of
‘spermatic worms’
spermatozoa
spindle
Spurway, Helen
Spurway, Jack
SRY
SSC (spermatogonial stem cells)
STDs
stem cells
Steptoe, Dr Patrick
stingless wasp
stinkbugs
stress
Sudden Infant Death syndrome
Sunday Pictorial
surrogacy
tanning
Tarnier, Etienne Stéphane
Taylor, Amillia Sonja
Tehran University
teratomas
Testart, Jacques
test-tube babies
testosterone
Thabit ibn Qurra
thalassaemia
The Concert in the Egg
The Eumenides
The Lancet
Tokyo University of Agriculture
totipotency
Tourette’s syndrome
trophoblast
tuberculosis
turkeys
Turner’s syndrome
University College London
UCLA Medical Center
Universe
University of
Arkansas Medical Center
Bologna
California
Cambridge
Huddersfield
Utah
US Census Bureau
Venter, Dr Craig
Venus of Hohle fels
Verkuyl, Douwe
Villareal, Luis
Vinci, Leonardo da
Victorian Era Exhibition
viral DNA
viruses
virgin births
asexual species, survival of
first mammal
Virginia Aquarium
VVF (vesico-vaginal fistulae)
Waldeyer-Hartz, Heinrich von
Washington Post
Weismann, August
Wells, H.G.
whiptail lizard
Whiting, Audrey
Winston, Lord Robert
womb
artificial
transplants
women, as living incubators
Women & Infants Hospital
Women’s Protection League of India
World Conservation Union
worms, parasitic
Wyatt, Charlotte
Yale University
Zuk, Marlene
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and science writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including as presenter of Channel 4’s controversial Is It Better to Be Mixed Race? and Brave New World with Stephen Hawking, as well as BBC Radio 4’s The Quest for Virgin Birth, and written for Wired, the Guardian, and many other publications. Previously a cancer genetics researcher at Imperial College London, she subsequently moved out of the lab and into the worlds of science communication and policy, in areas including the passage in the UK Parliament of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. A single mother, Dr Prasad lives in London.
