GC: Why is sex binary and not a bimodal distribution in all sexually reproducing species? Don't hermaphrodites show that sex is not a binary in other sexually reproducing species?

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[–]VioletRemihomosexual female (aka - lesbian) 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Funniest part with most plants, clownfish and seahorses, is that they are STILL binary. And there is no third sex in nature. There other ways to reproduce, like potatoes can, rainworms or starfish, when you cut them in half and they will grow into two clones.

[–]CatbugMods allow rape victim blaming in this sub :) 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s so bizarre to even bring other species reproduction in to the debate. I’ve seen clownfish and seahorses a fair bit as shoddy evidence that humans aren’t male and female because of hermaphroditism/males carrying young.

[–]kwallio 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Biologist here. The only organisms that I know of that have more than 2 sexes are single celled organisms like yeasts - yeast (like the brewers yeast) have something like 26 mating types (=sexes, more or less). I can't think of a single multicellular organism that has more than 2 sexes. There are a few species that are all female species that reproduce by parthenogensis and some species that are all hermaphrodites (pond snails for example) but none have more than 2 sexes.

[–]VioletRemihomosexual female (aka - lesbian) 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would like to insert here a joke about this means that someone are being one-cell organism seems, but that would be rude ;)