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alexseanchai) wrote2014-08-17 06:43 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2014-08-17 06:43 pm
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I can make the math of sex chromosomes work for a two-sex species like humans. I can make the math work for a four-sex species: XXZ and XXW are one sex, YYZ and YYW are another, XYZ is a third, XYW is a fourth. This math also works for a six-sex species, obviously. Three-sex species, which is where I'm trying to make the math go? Not so much.
Halp.
(I am contemplating gender roles for a three-sex species, assuming the vast majority of people of that species, like the vast majority of humans, are cisgender. I keep running into the fact that humans, at least white USAian humans, tend to conceive of gender roles as binaries, not trinaries.)
Halp.
(I am contemplating gender roles for a three-sex species, assuming the vast majority of people of that species, like the vast majority of humans, are cisgender. I keep running into the fact that humans, at least white USAian humans, tend to conceive of gender roles as binaries, not trinaries.)
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Hm. That could work! (Or XY is infertile or nonviable.)
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Or you could get a chimera where either X or Y dominates in clusters of cells around the body, like happens in XX's now. That would be sort of fun but may not be your goal.