The Crazy Ways Some Animals Determine Sex

Jennifer R. Povey
4 min readMay 20, 2021
Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash

Humans, like most mammals, determine sex chromosomally. Most of the time, men are XY and women are XX.

But this is far from the only way the natural world has come to distinguish males from females. Let’s take a look at some of the other fun ones.

Boys are XX, Girls are XO

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Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.