/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4927353]

What would be the outcome of a male-female chimera?

(twin eggs fuse very early on, two sets of dna in separate cells mixed throughout the body)

[Anonymous No.4927363]

The primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and the same number of feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast.

Now the sexes were three, and such as I have described them; because the sun, moon, and earth are three; and the man was originally the child of the sun, the woman of the earth, and the man-woman of the moon, which is made up of sun and earth, and they were all round and moved round and round because they resembled their parents. Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, attempted to scale heaven, and would have laid hands upon the gods.

Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained. At last, after a good deal of reflection, Zeus discovered a way.

[Anonymous No.4927365]

He said: 'Methinks I have a plan which will enfeeble their strength and so extinguish their turbulence; men shall continue to exist, but I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished in strength and increased in numbers; this will have the advantage of making them more profitable to us. They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they continue insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again and they shall hop about on a single leg.'

He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility. Apollo was also bidden to heal their wounds and compose their forms. So he gave a turn to the face and pulled the skin from the sides all over that which in our language is called the belly, like the purses which draw tight, and he made one mouth at the centre, which he fastened in a knot (the same which is called the navel); he also moulded the breast and took out most of the wrinkles, much as a shoemaker might smooth leather upon a last; he left a few, however, in the region of the belly and navel, as a memorial of the primeval state.

[Anonymous No.4927392]

>>4927365
Sauce pls

[Anonymous No.4927393]

Why does 4chan get so weird at night?

[Anonymous No.4927400]

>>4927392

Aristophanes's Speech from Plato's Symposium

[Anonymous No.4927402]

>>4927393
Because I have a job and need to work during the day.

[Anonymous No.4929782]

[Anonymous No.4929930]

No one?

[Anonymous No.4932542]

try this

[Anonymous No.4932565]

>>4927353
the body would appear male but would be infertile.

[Anonymous No.4932895]

>>4932565
How sad, what if, by chance the male cells where androgen insensitive?

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[Anonymous No.4933386]

Holy hell, the pictures are slightly different but I swear to you guys,*I think I've been here before*.

[Anonymous No.4935360]

>>4933386
Welcome back, you probably belong.

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[Anonymous No.4939321]

YOUFUCKINGFAGGOTWITH blah blah blah

You've heard it all before

[Anonymous No.4939468]

>>4927353
chimerism can take numerous forms

with the right mosaicism you could have male biology across part the body, and female across the other part (although hormones would be dependant on which part formed the glands)

generally they die in the womb though

[Anonymous No.4939574]

also, if you haven't thought of it, half of chimeras are male-female anyway and it's entirely uninteresting