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  2. Dandy - Wikipedia

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    In monarchic France, dandyism was ideologically bound to the egalitarian politics of the French Revolution (1789–1799); thus the dandyism of the jeunesse dorée (the Gilded Youth) was their political statement of aristocratic style in effort to differentiate and distinguish themselves from the working-class sans-culottes, from the poor men ...

  3. Sexual dimorphism - Wikipedia

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    In males, pain-causing injury to the peripheral nerve occurs through the microglia, while in females it occurs through the T cells (except in pregnant women, who follow a male pattern). [ 105 ] Females typically have more white blood cells (stored and circulating), as well as more granulocytes and B and T lymphocytes .

  4. Sexual characteristics - Wikipedia

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    Level of definition Female Male Biological levels Sex chromosomes: XX in humans XY in humans Primary sexual characteristics: Gonads: ovaries: testicles: Levels of sex hormones: high estrogen and gestagens (including progesterone); low androgens (including testosterone) high androgens (including testosterone) Anatomy of internal genitalia

  5. Female - Wikipedia

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    The symbol of the Roman goddess Venus is used to represent the female sex in biology. [1] An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction. [2] [3] [4] A female has larger gametes than a male.

  6. Sex differences in human physiology - Wikipedia

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    The studies often show different results about the body strength difference between the both sexes. Two studies, conducted in the four European Union countries, involving 2,000 participants (1,000 men and 1 000 women) concluded that females are 74 - 92% as strong as males, as many women (211 of 1,000) are still physically stronger than average men.

  7. XY sex-determination system - Wikipedia

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    We [are] entering this new era in molecular biology of sex determination where it's a more subtle dosage of genes, some pro-males, some pro-females, some anti-males, some anti-females that all interplay with each other rather than a simple linear pathway of genes going one after the other, which makes it very fascinating but very complicated to ...

  8. Woman - Wikipedia

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    ' woman-person ') whereas ' man ' was wer or wǣpnedmann (from wǣpn ' weapon; penis '). However, following the Norman Conquest, man began to mean ' male human ', and by the late 13th century it had largely replaced wer. [11] The consonants /f/ and /m/ in wīfmann coalesced into the modern woman, while wīf narrowed to specifically mean a ...

  9. Sexual differentiation in humans - Wikipedia

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    The human Y chromosome showing the SRY gene which codes for a protein regulating sexual differentiation. Sexual differentiation in humans is the process of development of sex differences in humans.