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Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think

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Re: Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think

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Richard Dawkins wrote in the Selfish Gene that across the animal kingdom, females and males can be distinguished by the fact that females always have larger sex cells. (E.g. eggs versus sperm) This could be slightly off-topic since I can’t read the article.

https://archive.is/tETrm

Re: Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think

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Richard Dawkins wrote in the Selfish Gene that across the animal kingdom, females and males can be distinguished by the fact that females always have larger sex cells. (E.g. eggs versus sperm) This could be slightly off-topic since I can’t read the article.

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Re: Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think

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Richard Dawkins wrote in the Selfish Gene that across the animal kingdom, females and males can be distinguished by the fact that females always have larger sex cells. (E.g. eggs versus sperm) This could be slightly off-topic since I can’t read the article.

> (Biologists use the word “female” to describe organs or organisms that produce eggs, and “male” for those that produce sperm; animals do not have socially constructed genders.)

From early in the article.

Re: Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think

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Richard Dawkins wrote in the Selfish Gene that across the animal kingdom, females and males can be distinguished by the fact that females always have larger sex cells. (E.g. eggs versus sperm) This could be slightly off-topic since I can’t read the article.

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Then it will still lay eggs just the same.
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