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Do We Really Want to Call Them Sex Chromosomes?
For three decades, scientists were you should not call them the sex chromosomes. They ended up getting sex chromosome. But in the hundred year history since we settled on that name, we can see it start o get a little complicated. And so my first stop was discovering x, y y, whichbe s known as something called the super malewe a super male. Yes? So i'm feeling like a rising sense of foreboding here, based upon what you mentioned earlier, about why the scientists were concerned about naming it the sex chromosone. Yet, there have been a number, sort of at a scientific level and at a social and cultural level....