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Battle of the sexes - one gene keeps us either male or female, scientists find

DNA's guardian gene found in placozoans. The common genetic heritage of life on Earth ever fills me with glee. We share genes with yeast, starfish, you name it - the same basic toolkit, recycled and remodelled over and over again.

Homosexual selection: The power of same-sex liaisons What role does a preference for same-sex partners play in evolution - and vice versa?

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Comments

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

"By birth" might also make a little more sense. But I think their meaning's pretty clear. (This whole thing mind-blowingly contradicts the idea that evolution and development can only tinker with the embryo. Wibble.)

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Wibble!

I mean, we already knew that certain reptiles and amphibians' sex could be determined just by the incubation temperature of eggs.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

If you mean "by the time that birth occurs", yes. But "by birth" could also be read as "by the process of birth", which is deinitely wrong!

Languages, eh? Can't live with 'em; can't just go "flurgle wurgle blurgle" and get away with it... =:o\

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I see you don't hang out on Gallifrey Base. ;P