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Is a society where children are entirely raised by boarding schools sustainable?
In my previous question, I brought up a hypothetical society where children aren't raised at all by their biological parents. Instead, the children are taken care of by hospital staff for the first ...
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What would modern color wheels look like if the human eye saw fewer/different spectral colors?
The typical human eye can see wavelengths between 350nm and 750nm. In 1666, Isaac Newton used a triangular prism to split a beam of white into a rainbow and then define the first color wheel.
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Are there plausible ways a spacefaring society could develop along feudal lines? [closed]
There are works in science fiction (the Dune saga probably being the most famous of them) where in the future, a space-faring human society has somehow, instead of being a republic (at least in name, ...
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How well would a transplanted human civilization keep its technology and culture?
The people's of the 12 World's draw their lineage to various earthly civilizations.The magical 'events' that brought them to there new home's would also often bring along their belongings and ...
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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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How to justify new diverse cultures from the same ancestors [closed]
I'm struggling a bit in my worldbuilding on justifying the creation of different cultures on my land, when all originated from the same ancestors.
So on my continent I have a group of humans that ...
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would it be reasonable for antfolk to integrate into human culture in the 21st century? [closed]
for context, antfolk are an intelligent species native to an area of africa, and are technically a species of ant. their description is "abnormally large (4 to 6 inch long) winged ants with three ...
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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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What would be the ideal of beauty in a world of a completely female human species?
This is a very hard question, if well the future and sociocultural interactions are hard to predict and many times could be wrong, but with the enough antropologic investigation comparing historical ...
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Effects of legalizing human meat and how to suppress criminal organizations selling it [closed]
Inside the citadel we see many creatures living together, they don't do so because they all love each other and the citadel has achieved not only the end to racism but also inter species peace but ...
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Society of producers, humans who can produce solid material from their bodies and it is used to make clothes, tools and buildings
In this world humans are kind of like spiders: they can produce their own building material.
This substance can be used to make clothing resistant to heat and cold depending on the variation.
It ...
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Clothes in a vegetarian society?
Two of the societies in my world are supposed to be vegetarian/vegan.
Society 1 lives in a temperate climate, similar to central/eastern Europe. I've thought of cotton-like plants for clothing and ...
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Erasing love from the world
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love sucks and causes humans to blindly look for a perfect match which eventually fails because no one is perfect for one another, relationship are built not gifted from God
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Immortal humans and menopause?
Setting, a land apart from the world, where an immortal race of humans live. Their social culture began as egalitarian hunter gatherers. Their cells are resistant to senescence and mutation, and they ...
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Manners Maketh Man
Working on the art book for my post apocalyptic world building project I got used to accompanying the introduction of each character or topic with a quote to set the mood and to emphasize how little (...
