The male semen intends to produce a complete human being, a man, but at times it does not succeed and produces a woman. A woman is, therefore, a mas occasionatus, a failed male.
— Thomas Aquinas Medieval

Catholic philosopher and theologian

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Commentary on Aristotle's On the Generation of Animals, following Aristotelian biology

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c. 1260s

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Controversial

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/sites/history/files/13th_century_theologians_on_wo…

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