The processes of anatomical and physiological changes related to sexual or reproductive functions during the life span of a human or an animal, from FERTILIZATION to DEATH. These include SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; and changes during AGING.
    

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The reproductive system / Kathryn H. Hollen.

Immaculate forms : uncovering the history of women's bodies / Helen King.

Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning / Claire Dederer.

Sex after sixty / Marie de Hennezel ; translated by Kate Bignold and Luisa Nitrato Izzo.

Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution / Cat Bohannon.

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Sexual Development

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The reproductive system / Kathryn H. Hollen.

Immaculate forms : uncovering the history of women's bodies / Helen King.

Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning / Claire Dederer.

Sex after sixty / Marie de Hennezel ; translated by Kate Bignold and Luisa Nitrato Izzo.

Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution / Cat Bohannon.