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Gender

Gender

1. Kind; sort. One gender of herbs.

2. Sex, male or female.

3. a classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. (R. Morris)

Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.

Origin: OF. Genre, gendre (with excrescent d), F.genre, fr. L. Genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. The root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass, to be born, akin to E. Kin. See kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, gentle, genus.


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Why not hundreds of different sexes, why only two ?

If you look at evolutionary trends in general, efficiency and simplicity in any given situation often wins. If there were more than two genders, that would create too many possible permutations of mating relations for mating to really be efficient. What if one gender could mate with two others, ...

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by jyaron
Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:30 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why not hundreds of different sexes, why only two ?
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Kids don't have kneecaps?

... yet. So in a way you are correct, but the kneecaps are there. The ossification process starts somewhere between 3 and 5 years of age depending on gender and genetics. What comes to kids going on all fours I have no idea. My guess is, though, that the biggest factor is their size: maybe babies ...

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by biohazard
Thu May 14, 2009 6:04 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Kids don't have kneecaps?
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Views: 550

Re: Human Sequential Hermaphrodites

... be able to become male or female, genetically, biologically and physically? Are there Scientist working on Nano-Technology and its influences in gender theropy?

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by noxious123
Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:55 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Human Sequential Hermaphrodites
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Views: 1239

Human Sequential Hermaphrodites

It doesn't match the way that gender is generated in mammals - hermaphrodites have clusters of mosaic cells from embryo formation lacking the Y chromosome, not something that could switch on and off later.

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by Darby
Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:59 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Human Sequential Hermaphrodites
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Views: 1239

Human Sequential Hermaphrodites

... the information I am seeking is kind of specific as my definition of a Human Sequential Hermaphrodite is a being that absorbs one aspect of their gender and/or morphs into another, genetically, biologically and physically. Most of the sites I looked through don't seem to touch on the subject whatsoever. ...

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by noxious123
Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:32 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Human Sequential Hermaphrodites
Replies: 5
Views: 1239
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