A little queer natural history

Book 2024

"From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mushrooms with over 23,000 mating types, sex in the natural world is wonderfully diverse. Josh L. Davis considers how, for many different organisms-animals, plants, and fungi included-sexual reproduction and sex determination rely on a surprisingly complex interaction among genes, hormones, environment, and chance. As Davis introduces us to fascinating biological concepts like parthenogenesis...

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Biodiversity

Environmental sex determination

Homosexuality in animals

Plants, Sex in

Sexual behavior in animals

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ISBN:

9780226837031

Description:

128 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:

"First published as A Little Gay Natural History in 2024 by the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-128) and index

Contents:

Adélie penguin : homosexual couples
Mangrove killifish : reproducing with itself
Duck-billed dinosaur : bias in names
New Mexico whiptail lizard : parthenogenesis
Morpho butterfly : divided down the middle
Western lowland gorilla : queer behaviour in apes
Domestic sheep : can animals be gay?
Saharan cypress : androgenesis
Bicolour parrotfish : sex-fluid fishes
Swans : male couples as parents
Green sea turtle : temperature-dependent sex determination
Giraffe : homosexuality in the mainstream
Common ash : sexual spectrum
Common cockchafer : historical homosexuality
European yew : sex change
European eel : environment-dependent sex determination
White-throated sparrow : beyond the binary
Spotted hyena : female-led societies
Western gull : lesbian mothers
Common bottlenose dolphin : explaining the gay away
Common pill woodlouse : bacteria-dependent sex determination
Bluegill sunfish : do animals have gender?
Common pheasant : out-sized influence
Splitgill mushroom : thousands of sexes
Chinese shell ginger : temporal sex
Cane toad : intersex animals
Moss mites : ancient asexuals
Dungowan bush tomato : changeable sex
Barklice : sex-reversed genitals

LCCN:

2023951075

Control Number:

3341551

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