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To grossly summarize a cocktail factoid - bird cells can individually differentiate, and some birds are truly half and half. Us mammals bombard our cells with h
by stephengillie 8y ago
To grossly summarize a cocktail factoid - bird cells can individually differentiate, and some birds are truly half and half. Us mammals bombard our cells with hormones, constantly telling them how to differentiate, as though we were some sort of eusocial insect colony.
- zaarn 8y agoYes, other animals have found rather interesting ways to differentiate into genders, IIRC in some cases it's temperature, in others hormones, others do it genetically and I think in a few it's merely "how many females are in my group?", where gender can flip to benefit reproduction.