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The Strange Science Behind Virgin Births
Whose Your Daddy?
Turns out that nun who gave birth to a child named after the Pope is in good company in the long history of virgin births. Professor Candida Moss on all the strange excuses given when there’s no father.
Candida Moss
Published
Jan. 22 2014
5:45AM EST
Candida Moss
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