The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome
Dec 10, 2015•30 min
Episode description
Nature offers species a panoply of ways to determine an organism’s sex. That flexibility suggests we need not be concerned about losing sex chromosomes, but it raises the question of why such a fundamental property is so variable.
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