Today I was featured on a sex/gender episode of the Radio 4 show NatureBang along with Professor Jenny Graves. We spoke about sex/gender diversity across the animal and human worlds. The small child in me who loves David Attenborough is very happy to have achieved being on a nature programme, albeit it wasn't me who spoke about dragon lizards!
You can listen to the show here.
And here's the full blurb:
Dragon lizard Sex is simple. Or so we're taught; animals can be male or female. But even the briefest glance at the animal kingdom tells us that this simply isn't true. Some creatures have only one sex; some have three; some have none at all. Some animals are two sexes at the same time; some flip flop between them when the time is right. When evolution came to solve the problem of procreation, she did it in a myriad of mind-blowing ways.
When it comes to humans, it's even more complicated - we have this thing called Gender, too. It's often defined as the social and cultural side of sex, distinct from the biological. But that's not the full story. Becky Ripley and Emily Knight travel back to the dawn of human culture, and into the tangled depths of our genetic code, to try and unravel why we are the way we are, and why it matters so much that we understand it all properly.
