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People here keep conflating paedomorphy as feminine and metamorphy as masculine.
I'll provide the meaning of these terms so everyone understands.
Paedomorphy means retention of childlike traits. It's a synonym of neoteny.
Metamorphy means the acquisition of new traits. It's the opposite of paedomorphy.
Dimorphism means possessing traits that are distinct from the opposite gender.
Basically, dimorphism only includes stuff like facial, tits etc. Stuff that only appears in one gender (excluding the weird cases where men get tits or women get beards from genetic mutation or environment messing with their hormones)
Being robust isn't a dimorphic trait, both gender get more robust during puberty, it's a metamorphic non dimorphic trait.
Blue eyes is not a masculine trait, nor is dark hair, blue eyes are a neotenous trait and dark hair is a metamorphic trait.
Yes, these traits appear in differing frequencies between the genders but they are still not dimorphic because one. they started off in both sexes during childhood or two. they still appear in the opposite sex without random mutation or environment distorting development.
I'll provide the meaning of these terms so everyone understands.
Paedomorphy means retention of childlike traits. It's a synonym of neoteny.
Metamorphy means the acquisition of new traits. It's the opposite of paedomorphy.
Dimorphism means possessing traits that are distinct from the opposite gender.
Basically, dimorphism only includes stuff like facial, tits etc. Stuff that only appears in one gender (excluding the weird cases where men get tits or women get beards from genetic mutation or environment messing with their hormones)
Being robust isn't a dimorphic trait, both gender get more robust during puberty, it's a metamorphic non dimorphic trait.
Blue eyes is not a masculine trait, nor is dark hair, blue eyes are a neotenous trait and dark hair is a metamorphic trait.
Yes, these traits appear in differing frequencies between the genders but they are still not dimorphic because one. they started off in both sexes during childhood or two. they still appear in the opposite sex without random mutation or environment distorting development.