Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bisexual or diœcious condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to
hermaphroditism . - noun In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.
- noun In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.
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- noun biology The situation in which the individuals of a
species are of one of two distinctsexes , and retain that sexuality throughout their lives
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It is clear from comparative anatomy that hermaphrodism -- the combination of both kinds of sexual cells in one individual -- is the earliest form of sexual differentiation; the separation of the sexes (gonochorism) was
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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