If you want to understand Mudokons, and therefore, most of Oddworld superspecies reproduction system, you'd better study Earth insects reproduction systems, like Ants and Bees, becuse that's the animals that ispired Mr Lanning and other Oddworld inhabitants to create Oddworld characters, as Mudokons, Glukkons and Sligs, to point just a few.
In Oddworld universe, we are not supposed to see anything like the "Boy-Meets-Girl" story, because that's not the point of Odddworld tales.
Let me try to answer the topic qustion:
what is a male and what is a female?
Many living species are assexual, meaning that an individual of that species doesn't need to interact to another individual to reproduce. This way, it bears a young that contains exactly the same genetic code of is generator. Examples of this kind of species are bacterias, and other microspcopic creatures.
Then, nature created a more evolved kind of reproduction, the Sexual reproduction. Two diferent individuals exchange genetic material to generate young offspring.
Scientists conventioned that the individual that gives his genetic material to the other individual is called The Male. The individual that receives the genetic material, and therefore has the task to generate the new young creature is called the Female.
This can be rather confusing, because some species just don't behave
exactly like that.
The first humans just called a man a MALE, and a woman, a FEMALE. Then, they tried to explain wild creatures using this same concept.
Talking about humans, it is very difficult to determine who is a male, and who is a female, because it depends on what kind of features are you studying.
Genetically speaking, a Male is an individual that has a pair XY in one of his cromossomes (I dont know which one it is). A Female is an individual that has a pair XX in the same cromossomes.
But recently scientists discoverd that a few men have a pair XX, instead of XY. So, this kind of classsification is not 100% perfect.
Taht brings us to another kind of classification, the so called
gonadal gender. Human individuals that have testicles, and full functional reproductive system that produces spermatoziods, a male gamete that has the ability to fecund female ova, are so called Male individuals. On the contrary, they are called Female.
Well, many men think they are girls, and the same thing also occurs to many women, and that brings us to another kind of gender classification:
The Psychologic gender. These kind of people think that, although they have all the biologic apparatus to be considered a male, or a female, their mind just disagree on that, making some folks think os that as "a man in a woman's body", or as "a woman in a man's body" perspective.
Sorry about all the Mambo Jambo above, I am in a typing mood today.
