Kristina O Smiley, Kathleen M Munley, Krisha Aghi, Sara E Lipshutz, Tessa M Patton, Devaleena S Pradhan, Tessa K Solomon-Lane, Simón E D Sun
Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex categorizations, in which two discrete sexes are inextricably linked with gamete type. However, this binarized operationalization does not adequately reflect the diversity of sex observed in nature. This is due, in part, to the fact that sex exists across many levels of biological analysis, including genetic, molecular, cellular, morphological, behavioral, and population levels...
November 16, 2023: Hormones and Behavior