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⌈ Secret Post #2524 ⌋

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Re: Question about A/B/O dynamics

[ariakas]

ABO is not my thing at all and just about the last thing I would find sexy, but I am a sucker for worldbuilding and science metas, so I've read quite a few people's essays on it.

Mostly it's just an excuse for porn like an other, but I've seen at least one where things are like you describe it: betas can have either, but as I recall are not very fertile/virile. "Male/female" dimorphism evolved separately, as the former body type is slightly more geared to virility and better at thriving in times of plenty, and the latter is slightly more geared to fertility and better at surviving when resources are scarce (irl, in fact, female sperm outcompete male sperm when their parents bodies are under stress, while male sperm edge out female sperm by a small ratio when they aren't). Over millions of years of evolution, those groups who had few males were less able to capitalize on times of plenty and were outcompeted by those who had more, and those groups with few females were more likely to die out in times of scarcity than those with more, so eventually the successful modern humans were those with a roughly 50-50 mix of the two body types.

My bone to pick with most ABO worldbuilders is the assumption that alphas would be both military grunts and great leaders because size/aggression/"dominance"/etc. I... those are mutually exclusive. Nobody who "leads" wants to die young, horribly, and most likely of an infection. Particularly if this is a world in which alphas are the rare elite. You'd probably never see them in the infantry, in that case, certainly not as anything other than a rear echelon officer, and now that most modern militaries have mandatory IQ tests for officers - and men with high levels of testosterone tend to have lower IQs than those who don't - you probably wouldn't even see them there.