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The analog nature of binary sex is also a fundamental limitation of biology. From an information theory standpoint it's fair to model any deviation from the ma
by samatman 6y ago
The analog nature of binary sex is also a fundamental limitation of biology.
From an information theory standpoint it's fair to model any deviation from the male/female poles as errors in the goal of reproduction with recombination through meiosis.
Your idea of what's technically correct here doesn't survive scrutiny. Errors and ambiguities invalidating abstractions is the behavior of a mathematician or a philosopher, not an engineer.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoNow this is baffling from even a lay perspective of evolution. Life evolves and survives based on success, not opinions. If seahorses favored a sex delineation where females gave birth they’d be extinct. Fortunately for seahorses they preferred mating.
- samatman 6y agoYour objection is nonsensical. Seahorses have an unusual strategy for gestation, but they have a gender binary. As indeed they must, to reproduce through meiosis.
- tomlockwood 6y agoSo you'd disagree with the author of the article posted?
- eyelidlessness 6y agoYes, you’re right, how absurd for me to not recognize that they developed their biology in a vacuum, and obviously out of thin air unlike every other mating species.