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    Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

    Clownfish. Sequential hermaphrodites. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/rCDqRaOBeY

    2:18 PM - 27 May 2019
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      2. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Anglerfish. Extreme dimorphism. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/RMBI73E42L

        5 replies 72 retweets 580 likes
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      3. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Seahorses. Female fucks around while male carries babies. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/LiWoUL8yUU

        2 replies 89 retweets 638 likes
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      4. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Birds. Non-XY genetic determination. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/ArEjcrshCF

        3 replies 62 retweets 549 likes
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      5. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Crocodiles. Sex determined by environmental temperature during development. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/Utz1vuVcN1

        5 replies 63 retweets 559 likes
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      6. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Platypus. Five pairs of sex chromosomes. X1X1X2X2X3X3X4X4X5X5 (female) and X1Y1X2Y2.... (male), where X3 and X5 look more like a bird (non X) than a mammal. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/BS8xp5xHpl

        7 replies 89 retweets 598 likes
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      7. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Hyena. Females have pseudo-penis which she internalises during mating. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/XPBPnXXoCk

        6 replies 76 retweets 555 likes
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      8. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Lily. Hermaphrodites. How to recognise the female part: it makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/aOvmtJhioI

        2 replies 63 retweets 505 likes
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      9. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Flatworms. Hermaphrodites. They penis fence to determine which takes the male role. Most of the time, no-one wins and they each, perhaps dejectedly, spaff (😉) over the other. How to recognise the female part: it makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/fStYnxavks

        7 replies 77 retweets 553 likes
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      10. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Bees. Males are missing an entire genome copy. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/btA1sZueRJ

        2 replies 57 retweets 501 likes
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      11. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Asparagus. No sense of sexed self and no plausible mechanism for social construction of gender. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/QzwZdRMh7B

        16 replies 91 retweets 642 likes
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      12. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Tuatara. Sex determination so extremely temperature sensitive that climate change is causing them to be all male. How to recognise the male: he makes small gametes. He can also be seen looking annoyed at enforced incel status.pic.twitter.com/t7VJrMgnjO

        14 replies 100 retweets 758 likes
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      13. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Peafowl. Sexual selection gone mental. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes. And she’s not a massive freaking showoff, like this fella...pic.twitter.com/QEKPFjKLsU

        7 replies 75 retweets 704 likes
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      14. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 27 May 2019

        Mushrooms. Delicious. How to recognise the female: there are no females (‘there is only Zuul’). ‘Female’ and ‘male’ are predicated on two and only two differential gametes, and fungi don’t have them thingies, settling instead for equivalent gametes labelled +/-, or A/B, or yawn.pic.twitter.com/YI9IvlYU45

        12 replies 51 retweets 441 likes
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      15. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 28 May 2019

        Straw-not technically a berry-berries. Delicious hermaphrodites. Genetic sex determination is polygenic and may reasonably be described as a (limited) spectrum. How to recognise the female part: it makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/ynwex34ktK

        3 replies 41 retweets 392 likes
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      16. Emma Hilton‏ @FondOfBeetles 28 May 2019

        Head lice. Annoying buggers. The female transmits chromosomes she inherited from either her mum or dad; the male *only* transmits chromosomes he inherited from his mum. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.pic.twitter.com/wm1Wr14rwe

        13 replies 46 retweets 400 likes
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