The bulletin of mathematical biophysics

, Volume 34, Issue 2, pp 297–304 | Cite as

Pourquoi deux sexes?

  • J. M. Legay
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Abstract

This paper is a concrete approach to the problem of the number of the sexes. We try to imagine—on the example of three sexes—the mechanisms which would have to accompany a reproduction with several sexes. We have limited our study to the monohybridism, dihybridism and determinism of the sex.

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© N. Rashevsky 1972

Authors and Affiliations

  • J. M. Legay
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  1. 1.Laboratoire de Biométrie, Section de Biologie générale et appliquéeUniversité Claude Bernard-Lyon ILyonFrance

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