Druid:

Nah, I don't buy it. Why have a system in human females that allowed them to reproduce without males, then change all that for a less efficient way of breeding, and therefore furthering the race? Especially at a time when it was important to breed for diversity and protection of the species, before we all had nice little housing estates to keep the predators off :-) Women didn't do themselves any favours if that is true, giving up their independence to be slaves for thousands of years :-)

It's a bit tenous to say that a gap in scientific understanding means we must have had a different reproduction system a la entirely unrelated species. Especially if we're far enough along the line that we have a creature we can define as human, with a pretty well figured out ancestry. This is definitely more Rambo's area than mine though.

And if it is a speciality of invertebrates, why did creationists give it up? Oh, of course, they didn't, they have a virgin birth. Sorry, couldn't resist that.
"All governments suffer a recurring problem - power attracts pathological personalities. It is not power that corrupts, but that power is a magnet to the corruptible" - Dune, Missionaria Protectiva.