Reading Reflection: Evolution's Rainbow

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Evolution’s rainbow is a perfect book for any botany or zoology student looking to expand their knowledge. It covers various topics, from sex roles to sex reversal. It is the many ways in which living things can be sexed that I believe caused the author to incorporate rainbow in her title. It is a sea of possibilities when it comes to learning how living things mate.
One of the things I found most interesting in Joan Roughgarden is the discussion on how hyenas mate. I did know that spots can be used to identify a hyena’s gender. However, I had no idea that hyenas are intersex mammals. To think that an animal could have male and female sexual organs is almost impossible. This, to many people, is only found in s...