A gynandromorph Papilio glaucus
The condition typically occurs early in an organism's development, when a cell fails to divide it's sex chromosome properly, resulting in, for example, one XXY-Y cell and one Y cell, as opposed to an XX and a YY. These ... confused... cells will continue to reproduce, and as the affected creature grows, will end up with equal half-male and half-female tissues.
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