female
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In one recent study, she discovered that female mountain gorillas would seek out females they knew, even if they hadn't seen them for many years, when joining a group.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
At a recent Morgan Stanley conference, he talked about running up hills with two female executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Baldwin is the first female he’s been in a band with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
For the first time, researchers have recovered and studied ancient proteins from Homo naledi fossils, revealing evidence that the cave may have contained an exclusively female burial site.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Juanita and the twins were my official damas, my female attendants, and each of us had been assigned a nice, handsome dancing partner, a chambelán.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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For more than a decade, researchers have struggled to explain why these individuals showed so little of the physical variation normally associated with differences between males and females.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Across every experiment, autism-like traits appeared only in males, while females continued developing normally.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
It influences the sex balance of a clutch of eggs: cooler than average temperatures result primarily in males, warmer than average in females, and normal temperatures in a clutch roughly split between the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
"It'd be good to see some females on those shows," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
She had been allowed to watch the lab attendants, in gowns and gloves, strip eggs from what they called the breeder fish, anesthetized females.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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