Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.
    

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Sexual selections : what we can and can't learn about sex from animals / Marlene Zuk.

Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough.

The linear arrangement of sex-linked factors in Drosophila, as shown by their mode of association / A.H. Sturtevant.

Gender inequalities in health / edited by Ellen Annandale and Kate Hunt.

De la chlorose chez l'homme / par J. Uzac.

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Sexual selections : what we can and can't learn about sex from animals / Marlene Zuk.

Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough.

The linear arrangement of sex-linked factors in Drosophila, as shown by their mode of association / A.H. Sturtevant.

Gender inequalities in health / edited by Ellen Annandale and Kate Hunt.

De la chlorose chez l'homme / par J. Uzac.