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Would a bioengineered man with Aromatase excess Syndrome naturally accept that he looks naturally feminine? [closed]
I was searching about Aromatase Excess Syndrome and I read some case studies about it and I was imagining if bioengineering/Synthetic Biology was used to create a man with such a condition( not ...
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How does a wing membrane from shoulder to knee affect the clothing of a humanoid?
This species called Artisans has a second shoulder on the lower half of the ribcage which extends into a pterosaur-like wing, and a membrane that goes from the wing shoulder down to about the knee. I ...
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What would aliens glean from our consumer grade computers? [closed]
David just bought a $1500 grand computer, he put the parts together himself. He was about to play some games on it and aliens just yoinked it to study. Without even looking at David or the biology of ...
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How to eliminate male on male competition? [closed]
What behavioral and biological changes would be needed to make males not fight each other over females and for females to fight each other for males and to not make males expandle and extremely ...
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Why Do My Super-Soldiers Constantly Mutter Their Thoughts Out Loud?
I am creating a race (either near-alien or a human sub-species) in a science fiction setting that have an unfortunate "tell." While they can stay silent in non-social (stealth-requiring) ...
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How would asexual reproduction (via mitosis) affect human cultural development?
I’m writing a humanoid race with perfectly symmetrical bilateral anatomy. This trait is shared by almost all complex life on their world and has shaped the way they reproduce; via mitosis. I’ve ...
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Would marriage exist in a parthenogenetic human society? [closed]
I'm working on something about an all-female human society modeled on real single-sex parthenogenetic species like the famous Whiptail Lizard. A few of the things I'm borrowing from Whiptails are:
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Turtle Island Size and ecology
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I've had a look and the other Large Turtle posts seems to be world based or assuming the turtle already exists.
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My question is how large could an island sized turtle reasonably get ...
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Why would a civilization only be able to walk counterclockwise around a thing they're looking at?
What would make a civilization only able to walk counterclockwise around an object they're looking at? For example in this culture a sculpture like
might only have been viewed in counterclockwise ...
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How would an environmentalist society deal with pests?
Imagine from birth you are taught that all life matters, no matter how small. From the enormous elephants to the tiny mice, it is immoral to harm them. A person of this culture would rather die to a ...
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In a society of bird people, what would the gender roles be, based off of bird society IRL?
In my worldbuilding project, I'm currently thinking about the society of my bird people. I like to put actual science (or "science") into my worldbuilding, and I'm trying to include as much ...
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How would quadrupeds dance?
Yet another odd question. Now, in one of my worlds, I am creating cultures for cats with human intelligence, but this question applies to essentially all quadrupeds. I wanted to introduce dancing into ...
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What could substitute coffee in a modern post-apocalyptic society?
Context is the same as in a previous question.
Summing up: a rebuilt, ultra-modern city state after an apocalypse where everything's produced in underground farms, and as such, certain commodities are ...
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Is a short lived race realistic?
So I have a species that has a life expectancy about half that of humans. In antique times, they mostly die around the age of 30 once they’ve passed the challenges of childhood. Their development is ...
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How would head shaping affect the ligament attachments of a gorillas skull?
After researching many head shaping cultures like the Paracas and proto Nazca it seems there is no adverse affects beyond physical. What would the affects be on a gorilla? Would it be able to function ...
