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[Broganisity]

. . .

How do Hanar reproduce. . .?

[Serza]

. . .

How do Hanar reproduce. . .?

 

Ooooh, snap. It seems I was right.

 

BSN's gonna turn this into Tali's Sweat v2.0...

 

And I'm actually laughing. I finally feel like a BSNer.

[Dobbysaurus]

. . .

How do Hanar reproduce. . .?

 

They stick all tentacles in at once. Then out pop out many baby hanar.

[camphor]

[Broganisity]

Ooooh, snap. It seems I was right.

 

BSN's gonna turn this into Tali's Sweat v2.0...

 

And I'm actually laughing. I finally feel like a BSNer.

No really, they're the only race we really can't just hand wave as 'like humans do'!

I mean- maybe Batarians do something strange also, but I'm certain they breed the same way most of the other races do. . .only Salarians and possibly Volus don't have some form of intercourse as part of their reproduction.

I guess they would be most like Jellyfish and go the spawning approach. . .some breed by budding too. . .

[Serza]

 

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

Asari don't lay eggs.

 

Sadly we know this due to Banshee body horror. Brain bleach, anyone?

 

As far as the evolutionary history of the Asari I'd lean against a recent aquatic origin because they are designed by nature to be land-based persistence hunters. That can be determined by their very close physical similarity to humans.

 

We look the way we do because we evolved to chase down large game on the African savannah, until that prey collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Before the invention of throwing weapons or bows, the only means our ancestors had to catch a meal was by running it down. We tend to think of humans as being weak compared to much of the animal kingdom, because we don't have the muscle mass, fangs, or claws of many of nature's top predators. But that is incorrect...while we may not be as strong as the lion, as fast as the cheetah, or have the bite force of a crocodile, no animal can match humans on land for sheer endurance. We are perfectly designed by nature to run down large prey.

 

A good video on persistence hunting and why we look the way we do:

 

 

Since Asari are physically identical to humans they must have also evolved as land-based persistence hunters.

 

I'd guess he Turians on the other hand, evolved as ambush predators. Their legs seem less well-designed for long distance running, they have a metallic carapace which probably means they don't sweat (sweating allows for better temperature regulation than panting, a good thing to have if you're a runner) and their bulk and claws might indicate that in their ancient past they wrestled down their prey. I'd guess the Turian equivalent of cave men would have hid in thick brush and pounced on their prey, taking it by surprise, and killing it with their own physical strength and claws.

Watching that video, I feel like an *******. My ancestral roots must be shaking their leaves at my inability to jog down the street.

[Dovahzeymahlkey]

. . .

How do Hanar reproduce. . .?

like jellyfish.

[Han Shot First]

Watching that video, I feel like an *******. My ancestral roots must be shaking their leaves at my inability to jog down the street.

 

 

I'm glad I don't have to run down my dinner, but that video clip is one of the most epic & inspiring things I've ever seen. 

[Kabooooom]

Yeah so this thread exists now some actual questions

so with us bringing races over and colonizing planets i am assuming repopulation would be a concern then i realized how weird this whole situation is.

do salarians and turians and asari lay eggs?

salarians are amphibians/reptiles and live short lifespans which means the probably have eggs and salarian at the bar mentions they don't view sexuality the same so im assuming there is no "act" as much as its probably just sprinkling some dna (see euphemism) on some eggs style

its noted that a fertile female krogan produces 1000 eggs a year and it can be assumed from wrex that though they may breed traditionally unless gestation is a couple hours they probably lay them elsewhere

Turians are birds? insects? poor femshep

and asari are ....fish? or something and live 1000 years i mean they obviously control their population but do they have to how long is gestation is their anything stopping an asari from having a couple hundred babies and more importantly WERE THE HELL DOES GESTATION TAKE PLACE. they don't have sex(brain meld) so i kind of assume they don't have those bits is it a brain baby? are those semi rigid hair tentacles ovipositors? wtf

Asari reproduce via a type of modified parthenogenesis, and they probably (although I dont believe this is stated) give birth to live young. Because they are parthenogenic, they are obviously descended from a species that contained both male and female members. There are many examples of all female species that reproduce via parthenogenesis right here on earth.

Also, they aren't "fish". I'm assuming you thought that because of their blue skin and scaly head? They are blue because of exposure to element zero in the environment of Thessia, presumably. Their biology probably doesn't track well with Earth's, but much of their anatomy has mammalian characteristics, which is in stark contrast to most other species in the Mass Effect universe.

And, similarly, you can't say that Turians are avian. They are avian-like. Only true birds on Earth fit that category. What it is, is an example of convergent evolution. Same with the amphibious nature of Salarians, and the reptilian nature of Krogan. There are probably (and this is likely true in real life too) only so many ways that evolution can adapt life to similar environments, because biology itself must follow the same laws of physics that exist everywhere in the universe. Hence, just as the ear of an elephant is flat and vascular in order to maximize the surface area to volume ratio and thermally radiate heat, so too is a leaf of a tree similarly structured, as it is an efficient design to absorb electromagnetic radiation for photosynthesis. Convergent evolution, driven by physical laws, is a major theme of biology. Nature is beautiful, but she uses the same tricks in different ways over and over again.

[Ria Kon]

Salarians are amphibian and lay eggs in some "room with special enviroment" (that's stated).
 
Asari have bellybutton (stated), so they logically are (almost) the same as humans in this matter. Only the process of impregnation is different - imprinting genetic code of their fathers into eggs not with sperm. That's why the "father" can be another female.
 
Turians are in the middle of evolution between reptiles and birds (stated). That means they can lay eggs or reproduce with viviparity or ovoviviparity (look up at Google, basicaly it means they can born children through their cloaca). I take my bet on viviparity or ovoviviparity, because there was no mention about eggs regarding Turians in the lore.
 
Krogans are reptiles and lay eggs (stated).
 
Drell are reptiles, so propably same as Turians.
 
Quarians give a birth to their children and reproduce sexually (stated). There's a high possibility their reproduction is very similar to ours.
 
Hannar are "jellyfishy" - it's very complicated, but it is sexual reproduction and water is needed. More "phases" of individual may be involved.

Vorcha, Volus, Elcor, Batarians not stated. (I have only my wild speculations.)
 
And a little to think about - Salarians do not enjoy sex. It is possible they are practising only an artificial insemination, with their contracts and everything.

[Big I]

Since Asari are physically identical to humans they must have also evolved as land-based persistence hunters.

 

Both asari and hanar were uplifed by the protheans. We've no idea what they looked like before the protheans started changing them. According to Javik the changes were extensive enough to give asari biotics and hanar speech (which means the protheans are behind hanar bioluminesence).

[Kabooooom]

Both asari and hanar were uplifed by the protheans. We've no idea what they looked like before the protheans started changing them. According to Javik the changes were extensive enough to give asari biotics and hanar speech (which means the protheans are behind hanar bioluminesence).

Not necessarily their bioluminesence, but maybe just their intelligence to utilize it for complex language. That's how I interpreted it, anyways. I mean, many cephalopods on Earth utilize their changing chromatophore patterning for communication, and that is probably partly where Bioware was inspired with the Hanar. These animals are already extremely intelligent, but imagine what a cuttlefish with the intelligence of a human could do, for example.

[Xen]

BSN's gonna turn this into Tali's Sweat v2.0...

BRB going to find out what quarian afterbirth/ placenta smells/tastes like with a chemical analysis.

[Han Shot First]

Both asari and hanar were uplifed by the protheans. We've no idea what they looked like before the protheans started changing them. According to Javik the changes were extensive enough to give asari biotics and hanar speech (which means the protheans are behind hanar bioluminesence).

 

There is a difference between the Hanar and the Asari however, in that the Asari were already sapient when the Protheans first encountered them. The Hanar were made sapient by the Protheans while the Asari were sapient but in their Stone Age. We also do know that the Asari looked the same then, because of the ancient art in the Temple of Athame. When Javik tells Liara that the Protheans taught the Asari mathematics, he also states that before that they could only count as high as their toes. The mention of toes and the ancient art both rule out a recent aquatic origin.

 

 

Of course if you go far enough back into the Asari's evolutionary history you might find a very distant ancestor who lived in the sea. All life on Earth has aquatic origins if you go back far enough, including humans. But a recent evolutionary ancestor is very unlikely. In their current form they are built for a hunting strategy based on long distance running. 

 

A good vid on how so many of our features are evolutionary adaptations for running: 

 

 

The Asari share those features.

[OhNoWhyHow]

Yeah so this thread exists now some actual questions

 

so with us bringing races over and colonizing planets i am assuming repopulation would be a concern then i realized how weird this whole situation is.

 

do salarians and turians and asari lay eggs?

 

salarians are amphibians/reptiles and live short lifespans which means the probably have eggs and salarian at the bar mentions they don't view sexuality the same so im assuming there is no "act" as much as its probably just sprinkling some dna (see euphemism) on some eggs style

 

its noted that a fertile female krogan produces 1000 eggs a year and it can be assumed from wrex that though they may breed traditionally unless gestation is a couple hours they probably lay them elsewhere

 

Turians are birds? insects? poor femshep

 

and asari are ....fish? or something and live 1000 years i mean they obviously control their population but do they have to how long is gestation is their anything stopping an asari from having a couple hundred babies and more importantly WERE THE HELL DOES GESTATION TAKE PLACE. they don't have sex(brain meld) so i kind of assume they don't have those bits is it a brain baby? are those semi rigid hair tentacles ovipositors? wtf 

 

Maybe it's already been answered, but turians are capable of having twins (mentioned once in one of those pre ME3 news feeds).  This almost certainly means they give birth to live young.

[Karlone123]

Salarians, yes.

Asari and Turians, no. 

 

Salarians are amphibians. The females lay eggs, and certain males are chosen in a breeding program to fertilize some. The fertilized eggs produce females, the unfertilized eggs produce males.

 

 Turians are a mix of mammal and avian. When it comes to reproduction, they give birth to live young. You can tell since female turians have breasts. 

 

Asari are primates like us. We meet an Asari who is pregnant, so they operate exactly like human females when it comes to gestation. They have female reproductive organs. Their term for that region is azure. 

 

Are you "azure"?