How can a male snake be a "female maker" or "male maker"?

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lol I forgot that reptiles and birds were backwards.

That is a great article and interesting to see that morphology (and faster evolution/genetic drift) is caused by the males.

Pretty sure this is what caused your misconception about it being sex-linked when most people think it's not. Plus, the fact that bananas are codominant pretty much renders the sex-linked theory impossible. It's still pretty perplexing why mutations in the male would cause a skewed ratio assuming that the same number of babies are produced (ie. assuming females or males don't die before they're hatched).