lodlock

Thank you for your insights. Given the hormonal requirements for functional reproductive organs that could lead to a potential problem. The fact that we typically go through hormonal cycles to begin with could hold some form of answer. Possibly if the cycles were prolonged and interchanging. Perhaps a quarterly or semi-annually change between male and female hormones unless said person has become impregnated. The design here is not to have asexual reproduction but to have a race where gender has evolved to essentially become irrelevant when it comes to reproduction. Asexual reproduction would not work as it loses the biological aspect of a newly combined DNA sequence. I could come up with some reason why it would work but I would prefer to theorize things which are possible. I find it detestable when people take the "because I said so" approach. Thank you all for your ideas, -Lodlock

I have been trying to research this for a short story I am writing but to no avail. What karyotype, SRY mutation, or other genetic mutation would be required to produce a true hermaphroditic human that has both fully functional sexual organs?