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The article isn't claiming that sexual dimorphism doesn't show up as clusters in a population. The article is claiming that the gene expression of tissues in an
by wizzwizz4 1y ago
The article isn't claiming that sexual dimorphism doesn't show up as clusters in a population. The article is claiming that the gene expression of tissues in an individual doesn't show strong clustering. The paper quantifies the extent to which it does (which is: not much, in humans, and a little bit in mice, but it varies a lot depending on which mice).
I read these kind of comments and just cringe, because sexual dimorphism in mammals is not a hard clustering (so yes, the word "spectrum" is apt), and the projecting of cultural foibles onto unrelated scientific research leads to counterproductive discussion of the same ≈three points over and over.