LEADER 03668nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9911092372003321 005 20251117095949.0 010 $a9781283949620 010 $a1283949628 010 $a9780253006547 010 $a0253006546 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330635 035 $a(EBL)816860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000804474 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11422612 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804474 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10814527 035 $a(PQKB)11523551 035 $a(OCoLC)826657879 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18227 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL816860 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10645219 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL426212 035 $a(OCoLC)854968346 035 $a(Perlego)568334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816860 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330635 100 $a20120912d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe 7 sexes $ebiology of sex determination /$fElof Axel Carlson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780253006455 311 08$a0253006457 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Wild Guesses in an Era of Scientific Ignorance; 3 The Ancient World; 4 Monotheistic Religious Interpretations; 5 The Descriptive Embryology of Male and Female Development; 6 The Discovery of the Egg in Higher Eukaryotes; 7 The Discovery of Sperm in Higher Eukaryotes; 8 The Discovery of Sex Hormones; 9 Ploidy Levels and Sex Determination; 10 The Discovery of Sex Chromosomes; 11 The Balance Theory of Sex Determination; 12 The Discovery of Sex in Microorganisms 327 $a13 The History and Interpretations of Hermaphrodites and Intersexes14 Dosage Compensation and the Sex Chromosomes; 15 The Discovery of Human Sex Chromosome Conditions; 16 The Seven Sexes of Humans; 17 The Identification and Role of Sex-Determining Genes; 18 The History of Homosexuality; 19 The History of Behavioral Gender Assignment; 20 The Evolution of Sex Determination; 21 What Does It Mean to Have an Assigned Sex?; 22 The Quest for a Unified Theory of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality; Afterword; Appendix: Secondary Literature and the Relation of Biology to Sex and Gender; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E 327 $aFG; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 330 $aFew of us know much about the biology of sex determination, but what could be more interesting than to discover how we are shaped into males and females? In this book, Elof Carlson tells the incredible story of the difficult quest to understand how the body forms girls and boys. Carlson's history takes us from antiquity to the present day to detail how each component of human reproduction and sexuality was identified and studied, how this knowledge enlarged our understanding of sex determination, and how it was employed to interpret such little understood aspects of human biology as the ori 606 $aGenetic sex determination 606 $aGene expression 615 0$aGenetic sex determination. 615 0$aGene expression. 676 $a612.6 700 $aCarlson$b Elof Axel$0462185 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911092372003321 996 $aThe 7 sexes$94681973 997 $aUNINA