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<blockquote data-quote="JacktheRabbit" data-source="post: 7604743" data-attributes="member: 525">You are diverting to a political activist argument that really serves no purpose. For reproductive purposes, which is why sexes exist there are two options. To use crude language you are either a female and provide that requirement for reproduction or you are male and provide that requirement for reproduction. Visual based variations are just that visual and have no relevance, genetic variations are equally irrelevant unless those variations/mutations/whatever they should be called are severe enough to result in one being unable able to provide either one of the two requirements required to reproduce.You are right, there is no reason to assume alien physiology would follow the same logic as earth biology. There is also no reason to assume that reproduction, which is the core reason for all living things to exist, would evolve in any manner that is more complicated than is necessary. I could see an alien physiology forming that had zero gender, every lifeform carried everything necessary to reproduce and thus could reproduce with any other lifeform of the same species, but adding more and more sexes and requiring all of them to work together is a evoloutionary disadvantage that decreases the likelihood of reproduction and general survival of the species in question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JacktheRabbit, post: 7604743, member: 525"] You are diverting to a political activist argument that really serves no purpose. For reproductive purposes, which is why sexes exist there are two options. To use crude language you are either a female and provide that requirement for reproduction or you are male and provide that requirement for reproduction. Visual based variations are just that visual and have no relevance, genetic variations are equally irrelevant unless those variations/mutations/whatever they should be called are severe enough to result in one being unable able to provide either one of the two requirements required to reproduce. You are right, there is no reason to assume alien physiology would follow the same logic as earth biology. There is also no reason to assume that reproduction, which is the core reason for all living things to exist, would evolve in any manner that is more complicated than is necessary. I could see an alien physiology forming that had zero gender, every lifeform carried everything necessary to reproduce and thus could reproduce with any other lifeform of the same species, but adding more and more sexes and requiring all of them to work together is a evoloutionary disadvantage that decreases the likelihood of reproduction and general survival of the species in question. [/QUOTE]

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