orphism

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As a result, males and females experience different selective pressures, which can often lead to the evolution of phenotypic differences, or sexual dimorphisms, between the two.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

In another chapter, on gender identity, Kandel nicely juxtaposes autobiographical accounts from the late Ben Barres, a prominent neuroscientist who began his life as Barbara, against genetic studies of sexual dimorphisms in mice and humans.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2018

This second class starts from sleep-wakings of all kinds, and includes all stages of alternation of personality, from brief somnambulisms up to those permanent and thorough changes which deserve the name of dimorphisms.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)