ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Hermaphrodite

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Max Friesen

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Ant100 - human sexual variation, medical & forensic anthropology - lecture #6. Olden days, gender was assigned by the physical attributes of the baby. Xx & xy - at the most basic level, only using female and male is very restrictive for humans. It"s not accurate to apply this to the animal kingdom, as it is not just simply males and females. Unisexual species: only females and can reproduce through non-sperm reproduction. This is seen in hundreds of insects and animal species. Sequential hermaphroditism: the largest and most dominant male changes sex when the dominant female dies or disappears, to keep on reproducing. The y chromosomes decided on the gender of the offspring, but there is also the zw sex- determination system in birds (males= zz, females = zw) X0 in insects = males have one x chromosome, females have two chromosomes.