Bibliographic record
Abstract
The classical paradigm of human and mammalian sexual development, largely based on work of Alfred Jost, depicts the genetic factor(s) that determine(s) sex as influencing only the fate of the gonad. A maleness factor produces testes (Primary Sex Determination). These organs secrete hormones which cause male Secondary Sexual Differentiation. In absence of the maleness factor, by default the gonad becomes an ovary, and the absence of testicular hormones leads to female secondary differentiation. In this article a new paradigm is proposed, to accommodate recent findings. Sexual dimorphism precedes gonadal development, in a Pregonadal Stage. Furthermore, female development is not by default-both male (Y) and female (X) sex-chromosomal primary sex-determining mechanisms probably exist. The human/mammalian male Y-chromosomal sex-determining gene is now known (SRY/Sry), and a candidate for a non-inactivated, X-linked, female determining factor, is under study. However, the proximate gonad-determining genes are probably on autosomes. Pathways between the primary factors and the proximate gonad-determining genes are indirect and complex. A hypothetical gene Z has been proposed, that inhibits the testis determiner and is itself the target of suppression by SRY/Sry. Candidates for proximate testis and ovary-determining factors and for Z also exist. The "default" concept has also been superseded with respect to secondary sexual differentiation. Absence of testicular hormones does not produce a normal female phenotype; ovarian genes and hormones are necessary. Finally, sex-chromosomal sex-determining genes influence the development not only of non-gonadal organs of secondary sexual development, but also of organs outside of the reproductive system.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".