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supermale

(ˈsuːpəˌmeɪl)
n
(Genetics) a former name for metamale
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Sex-typicality and attractiveness: Are supermale and superfemale faces super-attractiveness?
Dos Passos had read Paul Morand's racing story "La Nuit des Six Jours" (The Six-Day Night) and would have mentioned it to Hemingway, perhaps even throwing in a word about Alfred Jarry's novel The Supermale (1902) which contained an outrageous episode about a 10,000 mile race between a five-seat bicycle and a locomotive.
Exploring the supposed attributes of the "male" and "female" chromosomes (respectively, Y and X) Richardson analyses now-discredited research from the 1970s that focused on the XYY "supermale," and the ways in which the Y chromosome became a synecdoche for man.
DNA was extracted from adult male ([X.sup.e][Y.sup.f]), neomale ([X.sup.e][X.sup.e]), and supermale ([Y.sup.f][Y.sup.f]) specimens by treatment with proteinase K, followed by phenol-chloroform extraction and ethanol precipitation.
Suppose that you were to ask me now to further typify this novel, somewhat in the same fashion as Alfred Jarry when subtitling his various opuses (Faustroll is "A Neo-scientific Novel"; Days and Nights is a "Novel of a Deserter"; Messalina is "A Novel of Imperial Rome"; The Supermale, is "A Modern Novel"), I would be tempted to write, simply, that it's "A Comic Novel," without that preventing me from asking the question: what sort of laughter are we talking about?
2001.--Developmental biology of the supermale YY tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus): Histogenesis of the reproductive system.
Delicate purple and gold fairy basslets danced with a bright blue and green supermale wrasse and a southern sting ray flew along the undulating sea floor and then buried himself in the sand.
"Jarry's The Supermale: The Sex Machine, the Food Machine, and the Bicycle Race.
TABLE 4-1 Karyotypes and gonadal sexes of various anomalies in human sexual differentiation Autosomes Sex Chromosomes Gonad Syndrome Name 44 X0 Ovaries Turner's 44 XX Ovaries Normal female 44 XXX Ovaries Superfemale 44 XY Testes Normal male 44 XXY Testes Klinfelter's 44 XYY Testes Supermale 66 XXX Ovaries Triploid (lethal) 66 XXY Testes Triploid (lethal) 44 [XX.sup.sxr] Testes Sex reversal (1) (1) In this case a small piece of the Y chromosome is translocated to an X chromosome.

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