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The Atheist Experience 26.46 11-13-22 Forrest Valkai and Jim Barrows

The Atheist Experience

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The Difference Between X and Y Chromosomes

There's a lot of organisms that are hermaphroditic meaning they start off as one thing and turn into nothing shrimp all shrimp are born male and become female later. You can have xx chromosomes and have a part of what's called an sry gene translocate and still have a male phenotype. There is even case studies of women with xy chromosomes giving birth would you Xy babies who are also female like there's a whole thing there so like that it's just not as simple as that it's really fuzzy and really weird because life is fuzzier than we think.

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