Author: Claire Chisholm
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Can climate change affect Gender? Sea turtles say yes
Imagine your gender was determined by the temperature outside rather than your chromosomes. Pretty crazy, right? Well, this is exactly how it works for sea turtles. Unlike humans, a sea turtle’s sex is determined by the temperature of their egg during a specific stage of embryonic development (Woolgar et al. 2013). Unfortunately, rising global temperatures…