Or it may be that these three forms occur in the same species but in different individuals--female and hermaphrodites in one species; males, females, and hermaphrodites in another.
The calm and more philosophical observation of subsequent travellers, however, soon discovered that the so-called hermaphrodites were men in female attire, associating with the women, and partaking of all their labours and occupations.
Most of the earlier visitors to America have noticed the numeroushermaphrodites everywhere met with.
Hermaphrodites are barren, of course, as their sexual organs are not distinctively either male or female.
For mating, only the true hermaphroditeswere allowed to propagate.
The hermaphrodites wandered for many years until a place to settle was found.
Many of the sights that she showed him dated back to the time of the first colony of hermaphrodites that established a settlement on the Sedarin Plateau.
After several generations of regulated breeding, a pure-bred race of hermaphrodites was formed.
They were a group of hermaphrodites that were compiled and exiled by the rest of human mutants, who disliked them, since they most closely resembled the previous normal humans.
So the absolute similarity in the antennae of the males and hermaphrodites both in S.
These three latter parasites, certainly, are wonderfully unlike thehermaphrodites or females to which they belong; if classed as independent animals, they would assuredly be placed not in another family, but in another Order.
Impregnation of the females and hermaphrodites in Ibla and Scalpellum, 290.
Of the material Cause and Generation of Hermaphrodites There are several Reasons assign'd by Naturalists for the Cause and Production of Hermaphrodites.
These sorts of Hermaphrodites as I have already observ'd, have frequently pass'd for Men, being in reality nothing but Women.
On the other hand, when all three hermaphrodites coexist, and pollen is carried from one to the other, the scheme is perfect; there is no waste of pollen and no false co-adaptation.
Eighteen seedlings were raised from purchased seed, sown in the same small bed; and these consisted of seven hermaphrodites and eleven females.
We see this in those hermaphrodites which from the rudiments still present manifestly once possessed more stamens or pistils than they now do,--even twice as many, as a whole verticil has often been suppressed.
Conversely, if we imagine the female organs alone to abort in some individuals, males and hermaphrodites would be left; and the hermaphrodites might afterwards be converted into females.
Thirteen bushes growing near one another in a hedge consisted of eight females quite destitute of pollen and of five hermaphrodites with well-developed anthers.
A considerable number of plants generally ranked as polygamous exist under only two forms, namely, as hermaphrodites and females; and these may be called gyno- dioecious, of which the common Thyme offers a good example.
It is a curious and obscure problem how and why such hermaphrodites have been rendered bisexual.
In every case he found that they showed only two forms, the staminate vines and the self-sterile hermaphrodite, no perfect hermaphrodites being found.
In this the tribunal was merciful, for hermaphrodites customarily had a harsher measure of justice.
The fact thathermaphrodites are often self-sterile, while their eggs can be fertilized with sperm from a different individual of the same species has played a great role in the theories of evolution.
It should be added, however, that this result cannot at present be generalized, since in the hermaphrodites the specific hormones of both sexes must circulate without suppressing each other's efficiency.
If the larvae are allowed to settle on the proboscis of the adult female but are removed too early hermaphrodites are produced having male and female characters mixed.
Courts have been called to decide on cases to invalidate marriages, or to decide the sex, more than once; and physicians are often asked the question, Do hermaphrodites really exist?
So that, while most of the cases mentioned are fictitious and only apparent, the fact remains that the existence of true hermaphrodites is indisputable.
As a rule, the cases of males who have been mistaken for hermaphrodites have been cases of hypospadic urethræ in a greater or lesser sense of deformity.
Modern research has much diminished the number of supposed hermaphrodites, and of real hermaphrodites a large number pair; that is, two individuals regularly unite for reproduction, which is all that concerns us.
Nevertheless I am strongly inclined to believe that with all hermaphrodites two individuals, either occasionally or habitually, concur for the reproduction of their kind.
But if, in fact, all hermaphrodites do occasionally intercross with other individuals, the difference between hermaphrodites and unisexual species, as far as function is concerned, becomes very small.
In the case of animals and plants with separated sexes, it is of course obvious that two individuals must always unite for each birth; but in the case of hermaphrodites this is far from obvious.
In these cases the hermaphrodism is clearly secondary in the sense that the hermaphroditesdescend originally from gonochorists.
The generation which live in the lungs are hermaphrodite, the others are dioecious; that is to say, the males and females have hermaphrodites for their parents.
The sexual life of pseudo-hermaphrodites has in some instances been very carefully studied, more especially with reference to the relationship of pseudo-hermaphroditism to the direction of the sexual impulse.
Beyond question, cases have been observed in which pseudo-hermaphrodites with testicles have had sexual inclination towards males; and pseudo-hermaphrodites with ovaries, sexual inclination towards females.
As for the hermaphrodites (organisms that have male and female organs in one being), he thought it sufficed to assume the creation of one sole individual, since this would be fully competent to propagate its species.
It reminds us of the marble statues of hermaphrodites which the ancient Greek and Roman sculptors often produced.
Curiously enough, Wagner says nothing of the numerous hermaphrodites which, possessing both the sexual organs, are capable of self-fructification, and likewise nothing of the countless organisms which are not sexually differentiated.
Many hermaphrodites can fructify themselves; in others, however, copulation and reciprocal fructification of both hermaphroditesis necessary for causing the development of the eggs.
Moreover, the same applies to all those hermaphrodites in which every individual possesses both male and female organs and is capable of self-fructification.
It is in this manner that those unfortunate individuals known as hermaphrodites are formed.
Human hermaphrodites are usually so deformed that fecundation is not effected, which is a fortunate safeguard against the multiplication of such monstrosities.
Modern research has much diminished the number of supposed hermaphrodites and of real hermaphrodites a large number pair; that is, two individuals regularly unite for reproduction, which is all that concerns us.
Nevertheless there is reason to believe that with all hermaphrodites two individuals, either occasionally or habitually, concur for the reproduction of their kind.
But if, in fact, allhermaphrodites do occasionally intercross, the difference between them and unisexual species is, as far as function is concerned, very small.
Many hermaphrodites can fructify themselves; in others, however, reciprocal fructification of both hermaphrodites is necessary for causing the development of the eggs.
Many of the lower animals, whether hermaphrodites or with the sexes separate, are ornamented with the most brilliant tints, or are shaded and striped in an elegant manner.
These may be called imperfect hermaphrodites since they are seldom as fruitful as the perfect hermaphrodites unless fertilized from another plant.
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