
The Bird with Four Sexes
The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
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The Inverted Genes of the White-Throated Sparrow
Tuttle and Gonsor had been studying the white-throated sparrow for a quarter century. They inverted genes on chromosome two, but what did that mean? This was actually a problem with many DNA studies then. Tuttle's cancer diagnosis blindsided her; she refused to stop doing science.
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