Tuesday and Thursday, October 30 & November 1:  Sexual differentiation

Lectures #14 and 15

• Sexual differentiation
  

Slides

• Lecture 14 and 15 slides  
• Development of external genitalia the animation I showed in class

• Sexual differentiation: 4th ed: 718-721; 3rd ed: 704-708

Additional reading

• Testosterone Rules, by Robert Sapolsky, from The Trouble with Testosterone, available in the Math Library.

Optional reading - recent research

• Deleting gene changes sex of mice
• Homosexuality and biology A slightly outdated but still worthwhile article on the research into the possibility that homosexuality is biologically based.

Optional reading - health issues

• Sex: Unknown  Transcript of the television show and website with links to personal stories by intersex people, and an animation of sexual differentiation
• Intersex Society of North America Best source of information on this topic, by people with these conditions; includes definitions and frequency of different intersex conditions, and medical and legal ramifications.
• Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome support group. Includes personal stories detailing how AIS women felt about the way doctors and parents dealt with them.
• Klinefelter's syndrome support group
• Turner's syndrome support group