Fifty years ago, the dominant view, laid out by Susumo Ohno 4, was that there was an inexorable evolutionary progression from genetically labile mechanisms of sex determination to highly refined and ...

Figure 1: Theoretical predictions of the Charnov–Bull model for the adaptive significance of TSD based on the TSD pattern in Jacky dragons (A. muricatus). Incubation temperature had little direct ...

In a selection of reptile species a change in temperature can cause a sex swap. And by studying bearded dragon lizard eggs, Australian researchers have now discovered how that sex selection process ...