{"id":57307,"date":"2013-10-01T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57307"},"modified":"2014-06-09T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:06:59","slug":"sexual-dimorphism-in-the-green-spoonworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/01\/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-green-spoonworm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Dimorphism in the Green Spoonworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_124.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57311\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_124.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" width=\"481\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>Last month I had the pleasure of writing a really fun essay about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/09\/18\/sex_shocker_men_and_women_arent_that_different\/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual dimorphism<\/a> for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Salon<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0The phrase refers to the degree to which males and females of a species are different. \u00a0I offered a bunch of fun examples of strong dimorphism and imagined what humans would be like if we were like those animals.<\/p>\n<p>Men would be 11 feet tall, for example, if we were as dimorphic as the elephant seal; they&#8217;d be the size of a walnut if we were like the blanket octopus. \u00a0And don&#8217;t we all think that glistening iridescent skin, like the feathers on male birds, would make men more fabulously attractive? \u00a0It&#8217;s a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, coincidentally the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/2013\/09\/16\/science\/100000002443129\/creaturecast-sex-in-spoonworms.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> put together an animated video about one of my favorite examples: the green spoonworm. \u00a0The male spoonworm is very small compared to the female, equivalent to a human male being about the size of a breath mint. \u00a0And he lives his entire life inside of the female&#8217;s digestive tract. \u00a0Now that&#8217;s sexual dimorphism! \u00a0Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v-MQxYFEHJo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I had the pleasure of writing a really fun essay about sexual dimorphism for\u00a0Salon. \u00a0The phrase refers to the degree to which males and females of a species are different. \u00a0I offered a bunch of fun examples of strong dimorphism and imagined what humans would be like if we were like those animals. 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