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A recent video from the PBS Eons YouTube channel, a show which covers topics related to

paleontology and evolution, wrestled with how it's possible to distinguish

between male and female dinosaurs when all that's left are bones.

And it, the host objectively defined the concept of biological sex as applied to these extinct

creatures.

Quote, in this script, we'll be using male and female as shorthand for sperm producing and egg producing individuals.

She then added that one shortcut for assigning sex to an individual is by their reproductive organs.

Sperm producers have testes,

while egg producers have ovaries."

This definition is essentially correct, of course,

although no one really assigns anything.

A given individual, whether human or dinosaur, just is male or female.

We identify sex, we don't assign it.

Sex is objective and binary and has to do with the two distinct roles in reproduction.

Unfortunately, not every source of science education is this clear.

For example, evolutionary biologist Colin Wright recently called out Yale University

for a lecture that redefine sex according to

queer theory. According to slides from this Ivy League course, and I quote, sex is not an inherent

binary fact about a gene, a genome, a zygote, or an embryo, but instead a, and I quote

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