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Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The History of X and Y

Molly webster: Why do we have such a simplistic view of biological sex? She says the true story of x and y starts with their name. For three decades, scientists were like, you should not call them the sex chromosomes. That was the thinking. But in the hundred year history since we settled on that name, you can see it start o get a little complicated axon why their discovery and our understanding of themare actually superfoundational to the field of genetics.

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