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   Bobbie Sellers to William Hyde   
   Re: (ReacTor) Five Ways Science Fiction    
   09 Nov 25 15:22:36   
   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 11/9/25 15:01, William Hyde wrote:   
   > Chris Thompson wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Well, you've gone and opened 2 or 3 new cans of worms there. First, I   
   >> don't see that Betan herms have to be a different species. Why would   
   >> that be? They simply have 2 functional sets of reproductive organs. As   
   >> for the haut...by your reasoning, people with Turner's syndrome or   
   >> Trisomy 21 are members of different species and that just ain't so.   
   >   
   > Tetrasomy two, on the other hand ...   
   >   
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   > William Hyde   
      
   	For functional hermaphodites you run into conflicting problems   
   with hormones which may be solvable but seem very difficult.  Now if   
   the Betan Herms were to exist they might very well be a different species   
   from our long evolved humanity.   
      
   	Herm Sapiens Sapiens could be descendants of homo sapiens sapiens   
   but i hope they would not interbreed with our species as it would offer   
   no advantage to the offspring and might even be un-vialble.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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