• meco03211@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Biology doesn’t give special consideration for humans. We’re simply animals like the rest of the animal kingdom. Within the animal kingdom there are absolutely species with more than two sexes including more than two gamete sizes.

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      22 hours ago

      You’re probably confusing sex with mating types. Sex is binary because there’s exactly two gamete sizes, eggs and sperm. Other species have gametes that are the same size, but those are called mating types and work very differently than sex.

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        21 hours ago

        Nope. There are animals with more than two gamete sizes. Egg and sperm are not sizes.

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            20 hours ago

            Arctic foxes and fruit flies. And before responding, be sure to educate yourself on the difference between what constitutes size and “egg and sperm”. Those are entirely different concepts.

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                19 hours ago

                You’re confusing size and type. You can have two types with more than two sizes of a thing.

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                  15 hours ago

                  Look, I’ll be direct. You are ignorant. You should fix that. This will help:

                  “Male” and “female” in biology refer to gamete type (males make relatively small, motile gametes — sperm; females make relatively large, nutrient-rich gametes — eggs). The presence of different sperm sizes or extreme sperm variation in species like Drosophila is variation within the male gamete-producing sex, not a category that removes the fundamental distinction that males produce sperm and females produce eggs.