“Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.”

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Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male. Citation: Generation of Animals as translated by Arthur Leslie Peck (1943), p. 175 Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle (CC BY-SA)