Good golly, miss molly

In 1932, two University of Michigan fish ecologists, Carl and Laura Hubbs, reported in Science that they had the first experimental proof of a clonally reproducing vertebrate. What they found in the lakes and streams of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas was a small, live-bearing fish called the Amazon molly that appeared to have sex, but gave birth to only females.

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