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The Battling Sexes
Blanche Capel | Oct 1, 2009 | 10+ min read
span.cap { float: left; margin: 0 3px 0 0; padding: 25px 0 25px 0; font-size: 80px; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; } By Blanche Capel Choosing Sex The gonad is an amazingly labile organ where male and female signals vie for dominance in the developing embryo. © Lynn Johnson / National Geographic Image Collection --> Editor's Note: The gender of South African runner Caster Semenya&
The Hidden Side of Sex
Patricia L.R. Brennan | Jul 1, 2014 | 10+ min read
Sexual selection doesn’t end when females choose a mate. Females and males of many animal species employ an array of tactics to stack the deck in their reproductive favor.
mixing blue and pink smoke, symbolic of the muddled boundaries between sexes
Opinion: Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Agustín Fuentes | May 12, 2022 | 5 min read
Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish.
Defined Primary Cell Culture and Media
The Scientist Creative Services Team in collaboration with MilliporeSigma | Jul 29, 2021 | 3 min read
A new partnership opens the door for a source of highly purified human primary cells and defined cell culture media.
Battling Bad Behavior
McDonnell Social Norms Group | Feb 1, 2006 | 10+ min read
FEATUREBattling Bad Behavior COURTESY YURI MATROSOVICHAnti-alcohol propaganda such as this poster titled "Bartered" was distributed in the Soviet Union during the 1980s Many of society's most vexing problems - the rise of antibiotic resistance, the current epidemic of obesity, armed conflicts that leave both sides worse off - have their roots in the suboptimal and often puzzling actions of individuals. At times
Choosing Sex
Blanche Capel | Oct 1, 2009 | 10+ min read
span.cap { float: left; margin: 0 3px 0 0; padding: 25px 0 25px 0; font-size: 80px; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; } By Blanche Capel Choosing Sex The gonad is an amazingly labile organ where male and female signals vie for dominance in the developing embryo. he recent controversy over the South African runner Caster Semenya's gender illustrates the complexity of how sex is assigned in hum
Sex sickens female flies?
Elie Dolgin | Feb 22, 2009 | 2 min read
Love hurts -- especially for the female fruit fly. A new linkurl:study;http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122208568/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 published online in the __Journal of Evolutionary Biology__ shows that after fruit flies mate, females ramp up their immune systems in roughly the same fashion as they do when fighting bacterial and fungal infections. "Of course the immune system is there to fight pathogens, but it might be there to protect you against members of your own species
The Science Of Sex: What Is It And Who's Doing It?
Neeraja Sankaran | Mar 20, 1994 | 9 min read
Although it is a widespread field of study, sex research-- particularly that dealing with human sexuality--is still subject to stigma, many scientists agree. "It's okay to use sex for advertising--Pepsi, beer, and Calvin Klein jeans--but when it comes to research, sex is still a bad word," says Robert Friar, a professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., where he teaches anatomy and physiology and a course on human s
The Science Of Sex: What Is It And Who's Doing It?
Neeraja Sankaran | Mar 20, 1994 | 9 min read
Although it is a widespread field of study, sex research-- particularly that dealing with human sexuality--is still subject to stigma, many scientists agree. "It's okay to use sex for advertising--Pepsi, beer, and Calvin Klein jeans--but when it comes to research, sex is still a bad word," says Robert Friar, a professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., where he teaches anatomy and physiology and a course on human s
Book excerpt from The Wisdom of Birds
Tim Birkhead | Feb 28, 2011 | 10+ min read
In Chapter 9, “Darwin in Denial,” author Tim Birkhead explains how Darwin’s failure to recognize avian female promiscuity resulted in a century of misconceptions about sexual selection

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