Talk:Kela De Thaym/@comment-50.96.41.60-20130619200732/@comment-192.160.117.154-20130803214246

Grineer are all clones, and their birthing process is industrialized and artificial. Under this system, "male" and "female" are no longer meaningful concepts in general, since reproduction is compartmentalized to a subset of the species. Male and female Grineer soldiers exist most likely because they're based on genetic templates from an age before the shift to industrialized cloning occured and sex was still relevant. Any differences in physical or mental capacities between sexes are of little import, since all Grineer bodies are incredibly shitty and are mostly replaced with robotics, and they're almost certainly invariably infertile.

Incidentally, clones occur in nature pretty frequently, but they're pretty much always female. Conceptually, any female organism has all the equipment needed to create another organism. Ants, for example, create infertile clones (the workers and soldiers) from eggs that haven't been fertilized by a male. Some lizards can create clones that are fertile simply by replicating their own genome without bothering with a second set of chromosomes, at the cost of genetic diversity. Genetic diversity is kind of the whole reason men are a thing.