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The cave could represent the earliest known burial location reserved for one sex by a human relative other than Homo sapiens.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Houellebecq made his name dissecting touchy subjects -- including sex, race and religion -- with dark irony and clinical detachment.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

“Consent is fundamental, essential, necessary, and indeed in may ways more important than sex itself,” he told jurors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Discrimination against a protected characteristic is against the law, external, meaning an employer cannot treat you less favourably based on your age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Cheadle says, "A protective mechanism may exist within the female that could be harnessed to help the male. We're trying to understand how autism emerges in both sexes," he explains.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

One counterintuitive finding is that countries with greater equality between the sexes tend to have higher fertility rates, which might explain in part why the U.S. runs ahead of many of its regional counterparts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Although individual fitness levels differed, the overall rates of age-related decline were similar between the sexes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The international master title, open to both sexes, ranks higher than Sivanandan's current accolades - the woman grandmaster and woman international master titles.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

There, Cavalli-Sforza and Bill Hayes talked about the experiments by which they and Joshua Lederberg had just established the existence of two discrete bacterial sexes.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Last year, a paper published in Scientific Reports showed that, contrary to prior understanding, softshell turtles possess sex chromosomes, which means that they can be sexed using DNA analysis.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 24, 2018

A series of swift, scientific maneuvers followed: The researchers measured, sexed and appraised the animal.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2017

As for your second question, this really tripped me up early in my self-discovery process: “What does it mean to say I am a man, if my body is biologically sexed female?”

From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2016

Bulge on their beaks The two swans have been identified as male birds by the bulge on their beaks, and all of the swans are tagged and sexed at birth.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2010

Two hundred seventy-seven individuals were taken; these were measured, sexed and examined for breeding status.

From Natural History of the Salamander, Aneides hardii by Richard F. Johnston

Late last year, the group announced three finalists in a multimillion dollar prize to develop in-ovo sexing technology that is highly accurate and can be used at a commercial scale.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

Turpen says the biggest obstacle lies in developing a technology that is not only capable of rapidly and accurately sexing chicks, but is also readily affordable to consumers and hatcheries across the nation.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2021

That might in part be because of more accurate ways of sexing skeletons.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2018

Turtle sexing is key for research purposes, and also for conservationists who are trying to pair mates.

From The Verge ● Jul. 29, 2017

Having discussed with my neighbour in the country the difficulty of sexing her ducklings, I now know, as Donne surely did, that sexing can be far from straightforward.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton