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18 June 2011

Two Mints In One

Yesterday,
my friend Debra at
posted something really interesting about
the Native American concept of the human
who can have both the male & female
inside of them.
Please check out her blog for 
fabulous pictures.

In response to that,
I would like to post today
a link to a story at
titled

Bilateral gynandromorphism: a fancy way of saying you’re (literally) half male and half female



According to the story,
this cannot happen
in the world of humans;
it is only an animal condition, wherein
"Some have chromosomes that are expressed internally, whereas a different set are expressed externally. Nature has many ways of combining genes, and some of these combinations evince a distinctly binary way of looking at the world. Such is the case with a genetic condition known as gynandromorphism."

I'm not totally convinced this only happens with non-human animals.

1 comment:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Thanks for the shout-out! And I'm not convinced that gynandromorphism exists only among "animals". Last time I checked, humans were animals too. What about intersex people? They have both male and female chromosomes.