Kanan excerpts from a BBC report out of Scotland: "A study of sexually scrambled chickens suggests that sex in birds is determined in a radically different way from that in mammals. Researchers studied three chickens that appeared to be literally half-male and half-female, and found that nearly every cell in their bodies from wattle to toe has an inherent sex identity.
This cell-by-cell sex orientation contrasts sharply with the situation in mammals, in which organism-wide sex identity...
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