[Magdalen] Sex determination (was something else)

[Roger Stokes]

On 06/05/2016 20:05, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> The fact that in the developing embryo, certain areas become one 'body 
> part' or another depending on the chromosomal determination of female 
> or male genetalia is fascinating and another reason that 'things can 
> happen' that are apart from what we once would have said 'the ordinary'.
>
> I still wish that there were more significant studies going on about 
> hormones in food and in the environment, that may be affecting genetic 
> sexual development and/or mutations.

I believe the level of hormones in what goes from sewage treatment 
plants into our rivers is having an effect on fish.  Then we have the 
effect of temperature on alligator eggs affecting the gender of the 
hatchling.

Roger