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Condemned to single-sex life by climate change

All tuatara could be born male — and thus doomed to extinction — within decades.

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  1. Mitchell, N. J., Kearney, M. R., Nelson, N. J. & Porter, W. P. Proc. R. Soc. B doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0438 (2008).

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Towie, N. Condemned to single-sex life by climate change. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.927

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