In no department of life is it easier to contravert this old belief; to show how the male sex as such differs from the human type; and how this maleness has monopolized and disfigured a great social function.
In warfare, per se, we findmaleness in its absurdest extremes.
We need not regard maleness and femaleness as unit characters in heredity of the same kind as Mendelian characters of the soma.
The quality of maleness consists only in the size, form, and mobility of the sperm in the higher animals and of the microgamete in other cases.
So far as sex is concerned, he is made of maleness plus maleness; but she is made of femaleness plus maleness.
When an ovum bearing maleness meets the invariably maleness-bearing sperm, the resultant individual is a male, of course, and he is male all through.
If this assumption is correct, malenessand femaleness are merely a repetition of the contrast existing between the animal and the plant.
We mean pure maleness in a man, pure femaleness in a woman.
He does not seem to believe in the fundamental origin of maleness and femaleness, holding them rather to be secondary and derived, the result, in fact, of selection.
It is nevertheless necessary very carefully to discriminate between innate qualities of femaleness and maleness and those differences that have been acquired as the direct result of peculiarities of environmental conditions.
These differences are such that it is possible to grade the hybrids according to their manifestations of maleness or femaleness, both in morphological characters and instincts.
Those which develop into females will often show a primarymaleness which may manifest itself in the production of sperm or of other secondary male sexual characters.
And showing the relation between athletic pursuits and extinction of womanly qualities, the Spartan cult of Maleness led to such decay of modesty that it became the custom for women to run with the men in The Games, naked as they.
Thus, the boy is puny and emasculate because his impoverished maleness is too feeble to dominate the Female traits inherent in him, as is normal to males.
Against man himself and the Maleness that is his by natural right, many are filled with hottest distrust and aversion.
According to this hypothesis, the paternal (and male) inherences of any mother may be said to be transmitted to the grandson in the direct male line of her heredity--an unbroken line of Maleness reaching back to its amoebic origin.
What exactly Maleness is, and what Femaleness, has been one of the problems of the world.
There was a certain aggressive malenessin the way he strode beside me, that there was no mistaking.
If the total dose of maleness exceeds the total dose of femaleness, the sex will be male, and vice versa.
The grades of maleness and femaleness made it seem probable that the factor which determines sex must be stronger in some instances than in others, i.
Goldschmidt watched the crosses which produced seven different grades of maleness in his females.
But different races are likely to have a different strength of chemical sex-doses, so that when they are crossed, the ratios of maleness to femaleness are upset.
Biologists now generally prefer to say that a fertilized egg is "predisposed" to maleness or femaleness, instead of "determined.
The dual basis for femaleness and malenessin each individual simply means that both factors are present, but that only one expresses itself fully.
The quantitative theory merely means that this predominance of one factor or the other (maleness or femaleness--Gynase or Andrase) is more pronounced in some cases than in others.
That a tendency or predisposition toward maleness or femaleness arises at the time of fertilization, depending upon which type of sperm unites with the uniform type of egg (in some species the sperm is uniform while the egg varies); 3.
The same conclusion might be arrived at theoretically on the grounds of the recent biological evidence of intersexuality discussed in Part I, which implies that there are no absolute degrees of maleness and femaleness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maleness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animality; femininity; manhood; manliness
