Dichogamy- the temporal separation of gender expression and maturation. From the little information I could find on this term, it is first found in Darwin's 1862 paper to the botanical society. The author immediately declares the phenomenon a contrivance and justifies it as a scheme to reduce inbreeding. The staggered, cross-gendered maturation binds time and form thus exemplifying a biological gender continuum

In the end of his Origin of Species, Darwin expressed admiration for a "grandeur in this [evolutionary] view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved;" the beauty and brilliance of the theory stems from the simplicity of its origins and multiplicity of its results.

I've been thinking about the nature of a continuum; in particular the continuum of knowledge- Truth can be re-formated to fit another discipline, methodology and set of assumptions, but remain closely related to its antecedent "kernel." How to define similarity: Are two explanations the same if they stem from similar observations and follow a similar logic? Or isthe only valid indicator of a continuum, the content of the knowledge/ the form observation and logic take on?