From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 31 Aug 2000 - 20:58:07 EEST
Trotsky:
> Biologically, an isogamous species is one that reproduces sexually, but
> in which the gametes of the two sexes look essentially identical (so you
> can't really say which is one is male and which female).
Ah -- thought it was something like that. wasn't aware of the details.
> I suppose those 'hermaphrodite' blue elves might really be
> isogamous*, since (again, IIRC) its quite common with seaweed.
> * not that I really think they are; this is just a desperate attempt to make
> the post seem even vaguely on-topic.
Why does this not seem likely? One species of blue elf is single-sex,
> Closest anthropological term I could find is 'homogamous'
I thought _that_ was a botanical term too...
after all. (It's what the four-sex bhoys (etc, etc, etc) are up to
that baffles me...
Cheers,
Alex.
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