[UA] Cultures in animals

[Nick Wedig]

>Er, hermaphrodite means a combination of the two sexes. You're thinking of 
>a hybrid or chimera. 

Have you read the Mystic Hermaphrodite's writeup in Statosphere?  I'm not talking about actual hermaphroditism here, but about channeling the archetype in the IC, which involves the combination of opposites.  The conflict between male and female is the strongest in our culture, but not the only one (indeed, as our society progresses, we get closer to the MH becoming the Cyborg, the blending of man and machine)

>And platypi are really a combination of mammals (milk, 
>fur, homeothermy) and reptiles (those darn eggs they lay, and possibly the 
>poison that males have). The beak looks like a bird's beak, but it's 
>analogous, not homologous.

Bird or reptile, either way.

Mr. teapot
Platypus

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