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The 7 sexes : biology of sex determination
- Author
- Carlson, Elof Axel.
- Title
- The 7 sexes : biology of sex determination / Elof Axel Carlson.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Description
- xvi, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Variant title
- Seven sexes
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Genetics. Sex hormones. Determinants of sex differentiation.
- ISBN
- 9780253006455 (cl : alk. paper) 0253006457 (cl : alk. paper) 9780253006547 (eb) 0253006546 (eb)