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> Structurally speaking, it's easy to imagine a number of ways the female could have complete control over the process. Would you care to name a few? I don’t
by runeks 5y ago
> Structurally speaking, it's easy to imagine a number of ways the female could have complete control over the process.
Would you care to name a few?
I don’t immediately see it, unless we assume that the male genitalia stops adapting to whatever the female has.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThere are millipedes that don't have sex. Presumably the female has the ability to curl up inside her armor and there's not much the male can do if that happens. Mating takes place in much the same way most fish do it, with the female releasing eggs and the male fertilizing them. Female fish can't really establish control of the process this way, but female millipedes basically can as long as they only meet one male at a time. The strategy is not fundamentally stable; female bedbugs have no genitalia at all but that doesn't give them any control.