Breadcrumb Home 'Who Needs Males? Self-Cloning Females Heal Faster' Tuesday, May 17, 2016 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/160510-salamanders-sex-mating-clonin… UI biology professor Maurine Neiman offers insight into a study about a species of salamander that thrives without males. The research mirrors her own study of asexual snails.