Hormones are not all-powerful in determining whether birds develop with male or female features. Chickens that are genetic sexual mosaics reveal that individual cells also have a say in the matter.
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Barske, L., Capel, B. An avian sexual revolution. Nature 464, 171–172 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464171a
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