| > 404. It seems they were trying to link to this article, but mangled the link: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/33/2/in-humans-sex-is... It's a thoughtful piece that discusses sex in a much broader and more fundamental biological context than just our human species. It would be worth reading the whole thing rather than just the quoted section. > Claims that sex is strictly binary, rather than bimodal, can only be made while looking the emperor in the eye and saying his clothes are gorgeous. I think you may be confusing sex with sex-linked traits. For example: testosterone levels. If you sample a randomly selected population of humans and plot this variable, it will show a bimodal distribution. But this is because the sample contains two discrete populations that have an average difference between them in that variable: males with higher testosterone and females with lower testosterone. |