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Dragonborn: Boobs or No Boobs?
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Your scatalogical humour is unwelcome, especially since you are spamming it across multiple posts.
If it appears any more you will be banned.
Raduin711
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I say, no boobs, so long as we give a sufficiently feminine aesthetic to the female dragonborn. A frill, a crest, a different color of scale all around... Even a pronounced female figure will work.
I have always been annoyed at the troll females in WoW for this reason. If you look at the Male, he has a permanent hunch. Longer fingers, nose, chin... And ugly. The female troll looks just like a human only with tusks and blue skin. This is in order to give the female sex appeal, which I find to be dishonest. It's a reminder that sex sells and these companies only care about the almighty dollar. I really don't want to be reminded of this fact whenever I see a female dragonborn.
I have always been annoyed at the troll females in WoW for this reason. If you look at the Male, he has a permanent hunch. Longer fingers, nose, chin... And ugly. The female troll looks just like a human only with tusks and blue skin. This is in order to give the female sex appeal, which I find to be dishonest. It's a reminder that sex sells and these companies only care about the almighty dollar. I really don't want to be reminded of this fact whenever I see a female dragonborn.
Desdichado
Hero
Boobs are unique to humanoid mammals. Are dragonborn mammals? Do they lactate to feed their young?
I'd say probably not.
In terms of being a thigh person, dragonborn probably lay eggs too, right? In which case, the classic feminine figure of wide "child-bearing" hips doesn't make any biological sense either.
Suck it, dragonborn lovers. You can't tell guys from gals.
I'd say probably not.
In terms of being a thigh person, dragonborn probably lay eggs too, right? In which case, the classic feminine figure of wide "child-bearing" hips doesn't make any biological sense either.
Suck it, dragonborn lovers. You can't tell guys from gals.
Desdichado
Hero
I already can't tell the difference. That's why I flirt with everyone indiscriminantly.Rel said:
It does lead to an abnormal amount of Crying Game situations though.
I voted "something boob-like."
Egg production requires concentrated stores of energy, i.e. fat. The fat could have gone on the thighs or abdomen, but natural selection favored those female Dragonborn whose "evidence of reproductive fitness" was closer to eye-level, and thus more noticeable. The same logic doesn't apply to Dragons, since they fly and aren't bipeds.
Egg production requires concentrated stores of energy, i.e. fat. The fat could have gone on the thighs or abdomen, but natural selection favored those female Dragonborn whose "evidence of reproductive fitness" was closer to eye-level, and thus more noticeable. The same logic doesn't apply to Dragons, since they fly and aren't bipeds.
Rel
Liquid Awesome
allenw said:I voted "something boob-like."
Egg production requires concentrated stores of energy, i.e. fat. The fat could have gone on the thighs or abdomen, but natural selection favored those female Dragonborn whose "evidence of reproductive fitness" was closer to eye-level, and thus more noticeable. The same logic doesn't apply to Dragons, since they fly and aren't bipeds.
Giving rise to the saying, "Check out the evidence of reproductive fitness on her!" by teenaged dragonborn everywhere.
Achan hiArusa
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SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN LIZARD BODY SHAPE: THE ROLES OF SEXUAL SELECTION AND FECUNDITY SELECTION
Mats Olsson (A, B, C), Richard Shine (A), Erik Wapstra (D), Beata Ujvari (B, E), and Thomas Madsen (A, E)
A. The University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences, Heydon-Laurence Building AO8, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006 Australia, B. The University of Gothenburg, Department of Zoology, Division of Animal Ecology, Medicinaregatan 18, SE 413 90 Gothenburg, Sweden, C. E-mail: mats.olsson@zool.gu.se, D. School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109 Australia, E. Molecular Population Biology Laboratory, Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
Abstract
Sexual dimorphism is widespread in lizards, with the most consistently dimorphic traits being head size (males have larger heads) and trunk length (the distance between the front and hind legs is greater in females). These dimorphisms have generally been interpreted as follows: (1) large heads in males evolve through male-male rivalry (sexual selection); and (2) larger interlimb lengths in females provide space for more eggs (fecundity selection). In an Australian lizard (the snow skink, Niveoscincus microlepidotus), we found no evidence for ongoing selection on head size. Trunk length, however, was under positive fecundity selection in females and under negative sexual selection in males. Thus, fecundity selection and sexual selection work in concert to drive the evolution of sexual dimorphism in trunk length in snow skinks.
Keywords: Fecundity selection, lizards, sexual dimorphism, sexual selection
Received: December 13, 2001; Accepted: April 10, 2002
DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1538:SDILBS]2.0.CO;2
Section Editor: Pitnick
Mats Olsson (A, B, C), Richard Shine (A), Erik Wapstra (D), Beata Ujvari (B, E), and Thomas Madsen (A, E)
A. The University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences, Heydon-Laurence Building AO8, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006 Australia, B. The University of Gothenburg, Department of Zoology, Division of Animal Ecology, Medicinaregatan 18, SE 413 90 Gothenburg, Sweden, C. E-mail: mats.olsson@zool.gu.se, D. School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109 Australia, E. Molecular Population Biology Laboratory, Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
Abstract
Sexual dimorphism is widespread in lizards, with the most consistently dimorphic traits being head size (males have larger heads) and trunk length (the distance between the front and hind legs is greater in females). These dimorphisms have generally been interpreted as follows: (1) large heads in males evolve through male-male rivalry (sexual selection); and (2) larger interlimb lengths in females provide space for more eggs (fecundity selection). In an Australian lizard (the snow skink, Niveoscincus microlepidotus), we found no evidence for ongoing selection on head size. Trunk length, however, was under positive fecundity selection in females and under negative sexual selection in males. Thus, fecundity selection and sexual selection work in concert to drive the evolution of sexual dimorphism in trunk length in snow skinks.
Keywords: Fecundity selection, lizards, sexual dimorphism, sexual selection
Received: December 13, 2001; Accepted: April 10, 2002
DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1538:SDILBS]2.0.CO;2
Section Editor: Pitnick
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