Bird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today
- Written by Clare Davidson, Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
A late 15th-century French version of a scientific study written by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 170, fol. 11r.Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several Australian birds, including wild magpies and kookaburras.
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