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Quotes from Generation of Animals as translated by Arthur Leslie Peck — Aristotle

384 BC–322 BC Greece

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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.

Generation of Animals as translated by Arthur Leslie Peck (1943)

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