Affiliation:
1. Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Oxford
Abstract
(1) In certain islands of the New Hebrides (in the Pacific Ocean) a considerable proportion of the pigs are intersexual. Nowhere in the world are intersexual mammals so abundant.
(2) These intersexes differ from the rare intersexes of European pigs in the invariable absence of any rudiment of uterus or vagina.
(3) A tendency to intersexuality is inherited.
(4) The intersexes are interpreted as genetic males in which the testicular hormone has been produced too late in development.
Publisher
The Company of Biologists
Subject
Insect Science,Molecular Biology,Animal Science and Zoology,Aquatic Science,Physiology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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