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OP I agree <<Parthenogenesis does not mean 'to materialize out of thin air'.>> But I was going by my poor memory and interpretation of what I'd read in a newspaper article all those years ago. I did say whatever word he used "meant something like..." I almost said something like osmosis but I knew that was way off. Using the definition of parthenogenesis as the 'development of an egg without fertilization' is of course stretching it, but to me it was simply quintessential Buckley.
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