Abstract
Everything you always wanted to know about sexes.
Highlights
From a human perspective, sexes seem a relatively simple thing to get one’s head around—there are females, and there are males
Our perspective seems biased and narrow when applied to life as a whole, says evolutionary biologist Laurence Hurst of the University of Bath, United Kingdom.“If you were a single-celled alga sitting in a pond, you wouldn’t see the world as splitting into males and females.”
Different species have evolved a bewildering number of ways to mix and match the attributes of sexes
Summary
Sexes seem a relatively simple thing to get one’s head around—there are females, and there are males. Our perspective seems biased and narrow when applied to life as a whole, says evolutionary biologist Laurence Hurst of the University of Bath, United Kingdom.“If you were a single-celled alga sitting in a pond, you wouldn’t see the world as splitting into males and females.” Different species have evolved a bewildering number of ways to mix and match the attributes of sexes.
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