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Pourquoi deux sexes?

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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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  1. Laboratoire de Biométrie, Section de Biologie générale et appliquée, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon I, Lyon, France

    J. M. Legay

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Legay, J.M. Pourquoi deux sexes?. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 34, 297–304 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476523

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