The Distribution of the Sexes 



other Osmiae, of the Chalicodomae and of the 

 Bees In general were all traceable to a com- 

 mon law. It seemed to me that the arrange- 

 ment in a succession first of females and then 

 of males did not account for everything. 

 There must be something more. And I was 

 right: that arrangement In series is only a 

 tiny fraction of the reality, which Is remark- 

 able In a very different way. This is what I 

 am going to prove by experiment. 



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