An idea from Summa Theologica

Following Aristotle’s biology, woman taken singly is called defective and misbegotten, the result of a weak male seed or even a damp south wind. Taken within nature’s plan for the species, she is not. Sex chromosomes, found in 1905, replaced that biology.

From Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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