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Wrong person clapping. Developmental biologist. Sex Matters trustee.

Aug 25, 2022, 15 tweets

@PopSci I've read your article. Here are my thoughts.

First, this is your key.

@PopSci Gonochorists like humans.

@PopSci Protandrous sequential hermaphrodites like clownfish.

@PopSci Protogynous sequential hermaphrodites like wrasse.

@PopSci Simultaneous hermaphrodites with ovotestis like snails.

@PopSci Simultaneous hermaphrodites with separate gonads like worms.

@PopSci Occasional gynandromorphy like butterflies.

@PopSci Plants with male and female flowers on the same plant like corn.

@PopSci Plants with male and female flowers on separate plants like asparagus.

@PopSci Plants with perfect flowers (male and female in same flower) like lilies.

@PopSci Plants with male and female flowers on the same plant that have developed mechanisms to avoid self-pollination like avocados.

@PopSci Plants with a diverse array of sex allocation like you tomato species.

@PopSci I have covered this stuff before, here:

@PopSci Nothing you've claimed in your "article" can get away from the fact that there are only two symbols on this thread. Because there are two sexes.

@PopSci And of course, one of the diagrams had to be wrong. The male/female symbols should be switched here, to indicate female>male.

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