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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by naasking on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:32PM (#40277123)
It's in the second paragraph of one of the links I posted:

"It happens to be embryologically DETERMINED by chromosomes in mammals and (in the opposite direction) birds, by temperature in some reptiles, by social factors in some fish."

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by Dylan16807 on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:40PM (#40277222)
Most of the time!

Sometimes you don't get gametes. At that point, you either need to exclude those people from your classification system because it's ill-suited for this task, or you need to make your classification system significantly more complicated because there's a lot of edge cases.

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