Moving up the hierarchy: A hypothesis on
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Adam S. Wilkins
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A hypothesis on the evolutionary origin of the genetic pathway of sex determination in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is presented here. It is suggested that the pathway arose in steps, driven by frequency-dependent selection for the minority sex at each step, and involving the sequential acqui