ArneHD
Just a little bit mad
Neither, a rogue planetoid would have crashed into the earth shortly after your scenario starts and wiped out every trace of humanity.
which gender created civilization? (Not a troll thread)
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EnglishEdward
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The men would have neglected their buds and become extinct.
The women would be singing/dancing near a fire camp.
If however both species had reproduced by splitting in half, the more
aggressive men would have murdered all the women, and would be
singing/dancing near a fire camp to celebrate their success at genocide.
Tahuti
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Women would be hunted to extinction by predatory non-human animals.
I doubt men would be able to make great civilisations without women. Women provide nurturing which serves to help inspiration. Women may not be directly responsible for civilisations, yet they are also indispensible in creating them.
How does that work, I am wondering...
Oruc
Reactionary
Don't we already know that men become less virile as their comfort levels increase?
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
According to the extensive simulations I've just finished running, it would take the men 642 years to put up the first skyscraper, while it would take the women 2 years to build a stage on which an Oprah-like talkshow can take place.
I also predict a lot of sex once these 2 groups finally run into eachother and start sticking things into other things.
I also predict a lot of sex once these 2 groups finally run into eachother and start sticking things into other things.
Aleksey_aka_al
Smiley
Neither.
Someone should take care of the house and the family, with this role pre-defined for them. While the other have their hands, mind and time free for other activities.
There must be a competition above rational, which originates in males fighting over females. Without the irrational competition there would be no progress of any kind.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
But perhaps, you know, we should believe in Adam and Eve. Geneticists have established that every woman in the world shares a single female ancestor who lived a hundred and fifty thousand years ago. Scientists actually call her "Eve", and every man shares a single male ancestor called "Adam". It's also been established, however, that Adam was born eighty thousand years after Eve. So the world before him was one of heavy to industrial-strength lesbianism, one assumes.
Sir Lord Stephen Fry the Magnificent
Sir Lord Stephen Fry the Magnificent
Ziggy Stardust
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I don't know. Women ruling the world until something breaks or having jars they can't open, so they have to invent men, sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Jehoshua
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Well after a cursory google search on the topic, it seems one needs only watch the Dutch version of the Survivor television series (the one where they separated males and females on separate islands) to obtain the answer to the query posed by the opening post.
kochman
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Exactly, a rather strange idea to think one created civilization.
Women were more social, given the hunter/gatherer roles assumed in the early days, but by the time "civilization" formed, both parties were clearly fully engaged in social activities.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
If either gender could reproduce only asexually, I don't think gender would be a very meaningful concept. They certainly would not correspond well with our current notions of each gender, which is defined so much by its relation to the other.
