Answer by Luís Henrique for Would a sentient species be able to thrive when...
I think the most adequate system would be that of bees: the male dies after copulating, but his gonads remain alive inside the female, producing sperm.This would avoid the need for a skewed sex...
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In response to Cort Ammon, I think there might still be some "monogamous marriage". I'm reminded of a short story I read where it is proved that homosexuality is almost entirely genetic (as there's...
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Another example of an existing setting with a similar system of reproduction is Greg Egan's Orthogonal trilogy, set in a Riemannian universe and beginning with "The Clockwork Rocket". The alien species...
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As other answers have said, there is no evolutionary incentive for males to be intelligent, so evolution will reduce them to nothing more than horny little puppies.The issue then becomes how will a...
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It is hard to think of a reason why such a system would be beneficial in an evolutionary sense, but it is not entirely implausible. Consider a species such as chimpanzees, where the aggressive males...
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One of the short stories in Larry Niven's Draco's Tavern covers this, or at least one variation of it. They have a second male stick a turkey in the female's mouth right at the end.Naturally they had...
View ArticleAnswer by Barak Pearlmutter for Would a sentient species be able to thrive...
This idea was thoroughly explored by arguably the best living writer in the English language.The people from "There" ... are physically identical to those from Here, but for that the men naturally die...
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The "selfish gene" meme suggests that males will attempt to mate regardless of their fate, in an effort to pass their genetic material along to the next generation, so social, cultural and even...
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A species could easily exist like this, provided they had some more unique biology. For example, the female of the species could have the ability to store the sperm from the union for an extended...
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While it is perfectly viable that the result of this trait is a society separated by gender and probably ruled by females (this does not necessitate that males are slaves; could be treated as heroes...
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You'd get significant sexual dimorphism.Firstly, there's no reason for the males to be intelligent, there's no apparent advantage to it. It's a lot of energy to burn for such a short lifespan. I'd also...
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I think it highly unlikely that a species such as this would develop with equal mental capacity between males and females. Evolution's pretty ruthless, and intelligence has a fairly high energy budget...
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This would naturally lead to a decisively asymmetric society. My expectation would be that it would look more like a slavery society, where women have male slaves.Why? Economics. Why take the time to...
View ArticleAnswer by Bryan McClure for Would a sentient species be able to thrive when...
Yes as long as they produced hundred of children from only one pregnancy. Four is just not enough. Even an intelligent species would be extinct if males had a life long reproduction limit of four....
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There is a species that is quite sentient. Its members know about the world, they have hopes and dreams and great aspirations of what they might do with their lives. They are intelligent, creative,...
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Such society might survive and develop provided that women are able to keep man's sperm in their bodies for a prolonged time. They can then use it for subsequent fertilisations. They could possibly...
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