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The Biology Of Sex

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The True Story of X and Y With Their Name

Radio journalist molly webster explores the history of how we understand sex. She finds out that you can be a whole compilation of xes and y chromosomes. This raises one really big question, why do we have such a simplistic view of biological sex? It's a specific way of thinking about things from a certain moment in history that we are potentially starting to rethink....

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