Database: "Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, & Sexuality in Nature & People"

I support teaching scientific discovery as a continuous process of testing and revising our models for explaining natural phenomenon. Every challenge to our existing knowledge offers an exciting learning opportunity for better understanding our world. Here is a brief inventory of examples from Stanford biologist Joan Roughgarden’s Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People from University of California Press, 2013 ed.

I am grateful for the privilege to openly discuss these many examples of the myriad spectrum of sexuality, polymorphisms, and gendered behavior in living things. (For anyone who has had their identity silenced or erased, what is “natural” is far more “queer” than anyone can imagine.)

My inventory of more than 200 species uses Roughgarden’s terminology, but all typos and misunderstandings are my own; please comment with corrections. I’ll continue cleaning up the formatting.