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The 7 sexes : biology of sex determination /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carlson, Elof Axel
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Genetic sex determination.
Sex Determination Processes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Wild guesses in an era of scientific ignorance
  • The ancient world
  • Monotheistic religious interpretations
  • The descriptive embryology of male and female development
  • The discovery of the egg in higher eukaryotes
  • The discovery of sperm in higher eukaryotes
  • The discovery of sex hormones
  • Ploidy levels and sex determination
  • The discovery of sex chromosomes
  • The balance theory of sex determination
  • The discovery of sex in microorganisms
  • The history and interpretations of hermaphrodites and intersexes
  • Dosage compensation and the sex chromosomes
  • The discovery of human sex chromosome conditions
  • The seven sexes of humans
  • The identification and role of sex-determining genes
  • The history of homosexuality
  • The history of behavioral gender assignment
  • The evolution of sex determination
  • What does it mean to have an assigned sex?
  • The quest for a unified theory of sex, gender, and sexuality
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: Secondary literature and the relation of biology to sex and gender
  • Glossary.