From: TTrotsky@aol.com
Date: Fri 01 Sep 2000 - 00:56:07 EEST
Alex:
<< > 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, after
all. >>
It's certainly possible, although not quite the interpretation I make of
their description as 'hermaphrodites'.
<< > Closest anthropological term I could find is 'homogamous'
I thought _that_ was a botanical term too...>>
It is, but its also an anthropological one. Botanically it means 'a
hermaphrodite in which the male and female sexual organs reach maturation at
the same time'. An awful lot of plants are hermaphrodites, (most flowers have
both stigmas and stamens, after all), so botanists like to come up with finer
distinctions like this. This doesn't seem to have any parallel with the
decidedly dioecious elves, although runners might be a different matter...
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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