#binarysex — Public Fediverse posts

Thought this video by Jackson Wagon was a cute way of explaining how biological sex should not be thought of as binary but instead as a "constellation" by using an analogy to the iPhone settings menu.

https://inv.vern.cc/watch?v=cnshnUk-UKU

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#binarysex #multimodalsex #sexinevolution
These articles by biologists are very much at odds with regard to whether sex in animals other than humans is binary. It would be fascinating for a journal ( BioEssays? Science Magazine?) to get them to talk to one another.

#binarysex #multimodalsex #sexinevolution
These articles by biologists are very much at odds with regard to whether sex in animals other than humans is binary. It would be fascinating for a journal ( BioEssays? Science Magazine?) to get them to talk to one another. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202200173 (sex is binary, dammit!)
vs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.26.525769v1 (Multimodal models of animal sex: breaking binaries leads to a better understanding of ecology and evolution)
@AdvSciNews @holden

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/governing-behavior/202301/sliding-scales-of-biological-sex-characteristics
"Multiple axes describe people better than binary sex categories or a spectrum."
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