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Anatomically female but capable of self-fertilizing with their own supply of sperm, hermaphrodites remain emphatically uninterested in mating -- until their sperm supply runs dry.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

Anatomically, he says, the process works similarly to “vocal fry”—a droning vibrato sometimes added to the ends of words—in human speech.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 3, 2023

Anatomically speaking, they basically are the eating machines described in Jaws.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2022

Anatomically, they’re more like spiders than crustaceans, and they fluoresce under ultraviolet light.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

Anatomically modern humans may have settled Australia before they settled western Europe.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond