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Q&A Is there any function in society that requires male strength?

This came out of a discussion of an all female colony world, but I'm interested in the more general version of this question. Is there any function in society that requires male levels of strength ...

12 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Adam Reynolds‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Adam Reynolds‭

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Q&A Would humans outcompete sequential hermaphrodites?

I want to have a species based on humans, where everyone is born as female, but switches gender to male later in their life. Assuming that transformation takes 4 years (*) hermaphrodite is born as ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Yuvato‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Yuvato‭

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Q&A What would a matriarchal intelligent species look like?

I have a species of early primates (lemur-like but not lemurs) developing into an intelligent species like humans (and yes, there is some influence from an intelligent species, it's not 100% natura...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Nierninwa‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Nierninwa‭

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Q&A What kind of environment would favor hermaphroditism in a sentient species over regular, old sexes?

I'm trying to create alien species that is hermaphroditic, with strong sexual conflict. In essence each being tries to trick or force (by mechanical or hormonal means) its partner to take role of f...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Zjerzy‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Zjerzy‭

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Q&A How to separate male and female members of a "lizard like" species

The Gaals are a satient humanoid race, of magic origin. They were created by the last of the dragons as a legacy of his race to the world. They are humanoid, but with no hair and scales all over th...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Hommeric‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Hommeric‭

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Q&A Would having ZW sex-determination system have any drastic effects on humans?

I'm trying to make a world where my "humans" have ZW sex-determination system that means sex is determined in the ovum instead of the sperm. Could I just easily hand-wave everything else as being ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by wolfie‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by wolfie‭

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Q&A Evolution of a non-human species with no concept of gender?

In the world I'm building, there's a non-human race that I want to have no concept of gender. Their language doesn't contain gendered words like "man" or "woman," and sexual attraction is not based...

16 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by CoolCurry‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by CoolCurry‭

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Q&A Is simultaneous hermaphrodite species stable?

I'm writing a story set in the after the end world scenario. The very few humans who survived the apocalypse in the facilities deep underground, decided that human race is too self-destructive and ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by FutureIs‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by FutureIs‭

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Q&A What would society be like if sex couldn't be told apart until puberty?

Gender roles have been historically assigned at birth. As soon as parents establish the sex of their children, they are molded into certain social categories. But what if humans didn't display sexu...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by MoholyNagy‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by MoholyNagy‭

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Q&A What Would Happen If A Bacterium Hijacked Human Gender Determination?

In pillbugs, sex is determined by two chromosomes: Z and W. Individuals who inherit two Zs develop as males, while ZW individuals become female. But in some populations, these rules are over...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ohwilleke‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ohwilleke‭

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Q&A Plausible cause of a family only giving birth to females?

I had an idea about a lineage supposedly cursed so that the women only give birth to more women, but I'm thinking that some outside force purposefully mutated/altered their DNA to cause the effect ...

21 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Preg-Fan‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Preg-Fan‭

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Q&A Gender ratio in a three gender system

I'm creating a human race that has 3 sexes: male, female & hermaphrodite. Is there any biological rules that limits what should be the ratio between sexes or I could just pick whatever works b...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by user32045‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user32045‭

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Q&A What Would Be Needed To Produce Human Hermaphrodites?

What kind of mutations would be necessary to cause humans to start producing fertile hermaphrodites?

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Qaunwerzot7‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Qaunwerzot7‭

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Q&A Rapid healing and its impact on gender transition

Imagine a character with a healing ability similar to Wolverine or Deadpool (as in able to recover from most injuries in minutes). The ability is always "on," and works like a sped-up version of th...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Dunmurderin‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Dunmurderin‭

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Q&A How to explain extreme human dimorphism?

Is there any way to explain how did humans in my planet end up with extreme dimorphism without resorting to polygyny nor "magic"? I want men to be around 6ft (183cm) - 230 lb (105kg), while women ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by dacuvas‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dacuvas‭

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Q&A Greatest possible genetic difference between a male and female of the same species?

Nature does some pretty interesting things with gender: This is a female trilobite beetle. Scientists have observed females extensively, yet for decades, scientists could not identify the male ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A What's a plausible way for a three biological sexes setup to develop for a dominant intelligent species?

It's easy enough to figure out how a species might evolve a third biological gender in general (e.g. some sort of asexual drones/workers, ala insects). But what I want to build is a system where t...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by DVK‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by DVK‭

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Q&A How many years should the transformation from woman to man take?

I'm trying to design human like race where all the children are born as girls, but later in life some of them switch to male, but no sooner then 15. Usually only the most dominant women switch, so ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Lulawezi‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Lulawezi‭

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Q&A Can a one gendered species evolve sapience

In a world I am building, I want the primary species to be 100% peaceful. The best way I have thought of for doing this post-sapience is to remove all identifying traits (skin, eye and hair color, ...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A How would gender roles be affected by a society where parents could control the sex of their child

Imagine a species almost identical to humans, with one exception. All sperm contained both X and Y chromosome, and every child has the potential to develop as either sex. However, the mother has ...

10 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭