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| Variations in gender and reproduction; Extraterrestrial gender-bending. | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 10 2009, 04:07 PM (999 Views) | |
| T.Neo | Jul 10 2009, 04:07 PM Post #1 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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On Earth we are familiar with a two-gender system- the male organism provides the sperm, which fertilizes the ovum produced (and in many animals, hosted) by the female. Now, certain animals can assume both roles, and there are animals who have evolved to become parthenogenic, and do not need to mate. There are also animals that reproduce asexually. Some male animals host the developing young, like seahorses, but this is rare. Now, on other planets, is it safe to assume that animal-like organisms will evolve gender at all? Is it possible for there to be more then one gender? What interesting reproductive systems/mating methods could evolve? |
| A hard mathematical figure provides a sort of enlightenment to one's understanding of an idea that is never matched by mere guesswork. | |
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| Ànraich | Jul 18 2009, 02:04 PM Post #16 |
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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...Or eunuchs, like they were on Earth. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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