Fishes show a great diversity of gonadal development and differentiation that can be classified into five categories: (i) gonochoristic species with individuals developing either testes or ovaries, (ii) sequential hermaphrodites that mature as males (protandrous) or (iii) as females (protogynous...
The researchers, funded by a Marsden Fast-start grant, sampled the zebrafish every three months and identified a significant decline insperm production, sperm swimming speed and total sperm motility as they aged. But, unexpectedly, they found that older males continued to produce offspring with high...
Conventionally, “grue” refers to the collection of colors that can be described in English by either blue or green. The genders lexicalize similar categories, but may have different preferred names for the category. This could be caused by native color-word synonyms (language 103), or ...
On the other hand: if you ask someone to guess the intensity of a hurricane based onnothing other than a name, maybe it’s true that people will guess Hurricane “Snidely Whiplash” is fiercer than Hurricane “Nell”. Heck, if we gave them dog names, I’d probably guess Hurricane “...