• powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works
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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.