Abstract
The idea for this project started over lunch in an Italian restaurant in Copenhagen in 2010. We were not planning to talk about sex at that time, but to discuss the evolution of uniparental inheritance. But as they say, one thing leads to another, and we started to talk about sex and its underappreciated weirdness. And the need for a project like this. Along the way, we were continuously reminded of the importance of such a project: the most recent example was a comment in an undergraduate ‘learning diary’, a teaching tool in which students are asked to explain hard to understand concepts, or concepts that are surprising to them. The student expressed great surprise to hear that vertebrate sex determination does not always follow the ‘normal’ XY pattern; in birds, sex is instead determined by ZW chromosomes and females are the heterogametic sex. Well, we thought, if ZW sex determination seems ‘weird’, then you ain't seen nothing yet!
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