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Can knowingly and willingly murdering someone interfere with a women's menstural cycle? [closed]
On Peacemaker, Harcourt, one of the characters, mentions that when she first killed someone, her periods stopped happening for quite a bit.
My question is this: Just how realistic is that?
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How to eliminate male on male competition? [closed]
What behavioral and biological changes would be needed to make males not fight each other over females and for females to fight each other for males and to not make males expandle and extremely ...
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What kind of creature would be able to provide nutrients to my floating plant mat?
My ocean biome is almost entirely covered by a mat of linked free-floating plants. You can read further details on my original question "What challenges must oceanic plant life overcome in order ...
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Does spraying oxytocin in the face of a ferocious dragon pacify it?
Instead of a pepper spray I like to adopt a more friendly approach towards hostile animal such as a fridge sized dragon, with an aerosol spray containing oxytocin of course. I think this chemical can ...
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Anthropomorphic animals and chew toys?
So, I have a world not unlike Zootopia, i.e. populated with all sorts of anthropomorphic mammals.
There's a scene in my story where a wolf-person and a cat-person are looking at chew toys in a pet ...
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How would predation work in an empathic universe?
In my world, there is a plane of existence whose laws of reality work differently than ours. In this plane, thoughts are not private. The boundaries between the mind and reality are slim, and thus ...
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Selection pressures acting on the Goliath from 'Evolve?' [closed]
I know someone's already asked wether this thing was feasible, but I had a slightly different question: I wanted to know what kinds of things could drive something to... well 'evolve' the way the ...
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What would be a plausible reason for a prey animal to mimic its own predator?
The saying goes "a wolf in sheep's clothing", which is a biblical idiom to refer to someone pretending to be harmless. This got me thinking about if the reverse could also be true. So I came up with a ...
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How Would a Filter-Feeding Marine Turtle Feed?
Back home, many large planktivores have ingenious ways to trap food and not water. For sharks like the basking and the megamouth, that is no problem, as they have modified their gills into rakers to ...
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I Need Help With Human Degenerative Disease (HDD) [closed]
I am currently working on a post-apocalyptic world where roughly 90% of humanity get infected by HDD (Human Degenerative Disease). HDD causes the human brain, glands and tissues to change quite ...
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What Purpose Would a Unicorn's Horn Serve in the Wild?
This famous tapestry shows all the "modernized" traits of a unicorn--basically just a pale-colored horse with a single horn on its head. Of course, single-horned animals do and did exist:
The only ...
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