Daniel Blumstein

he would go up and like greet her and she would smack him in the face.

And, you know, then he would like go and chase his daughter because he could.

But, you know, it's just, it's a Greek tragedy.

I don't know.

Tragedy, absolutely, from his perspective.

Anal genital distance?

Anal genital distance.

So one of the more interesting studies I've done that really woke up me to...

the consequences of modern pollution and particularly plastic pollution is a marmot story.

Oh no.

So it turns out that if you're a mammal, you know, you're, if you're a male, you have a penis and an anus and those are a distance away.

If you're a female, you have a vagina and an anus and those are closer to each other.

So,

people, maybe people like me, measure something called anogenital distance.

Now, it also turns out that if you're a rodent, you have lots of siblings.

And you can imagine all the babies in the uterus, two uteri, like a pea, and then the pea pods are the babies growing up.

And a guy named Frederick Momsall

was looking at the development, the effect of hormones on development.

And with mice, mice did little cesarean sections and figured out where the babies came from in their uterine horn, in their uterus.

And females, surrounded by two males, became more masculinized.