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@HairyLeggdHarpy True Chand is irrelevant to the Olympic's decision and the article should not have mentioned her
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I can't think of a dsd where a girl reaches puberty, starts periods normally, is oblivious to anything unusual, becomes an elite athlete and suddenly in adulthood discovers she has an SRY gene due to a cheek swab.
"No idea"
What type of DSD is Brian thinking of, I wonder... 🤔
Brian Sutterer MD@BrianSuttererMD
Genetic test. Athletes who may have had no idea will now be labeled as the public as “male” Others may refuse to participate in the Olympics and therefore testing and will then also be labeled as likely male and trying to hide something. I understand the intent for fairness in sport, but this is going to have serious repercussions (including US athletes) that I don’t think the sports world is ready for
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@HairyLeggdHarpy You'd think but being from a rural village she claims she didn't know until after the media did
radiolab.org/podcast/dutee/…
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@h2ner No, it didn't.
Dutee Chand did not get periods at puberty. Or ever. That's my point. If you are xy you don't menstruate.
It's never a big surprise.
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maybe this seems obvious to others, but the way we treat species in hominin evolution isnt consistent with other areas. speciation ordinarily is denoted by reproductive incompatibility between two groups, they cannot produce viable offspring
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@Local_Origins1 Neandertals have such similar morphology across space&time they are probably the best candidate for a paleospecies and yet we bred with them. I think after 2010 every academic has allowed for the possibility of interbreeding between any two contemporaneous “species” bc of this
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@Local_Origins1 Yeah definitely no consensus and it seems to depend highly on just like personal temperament (are you a lumper or a splitter). I like when people don’t even use species names and only refer to specimen IDs
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@Local_Origins1 @Phillip05166897 Neandertal introgression dates are pretty certain. >50k Asia&Oceania was late erectus/denisovan that mostly died out with some absorbed into Homo sapiens. None of these are necessarily hills I’ll die on but seems to be where the evidence points
johnhawks.net/p/when-and-how…
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Highly recommend everyone listen to this immediately
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…
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