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Originally Posted by Nodrog
I've not heard of that, but I'm guessing its because the number of features characterising each sex are sufficiently few in a 'simple' creature that talking about a continuum starts to make sense?
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It's due to the way that sex is determined in them, and errors in meiosis. I'm not sure if it's an upshot of them being simpler, I'm not a geneticist. And I can't remember which lecture this example appeared in.