>>14209091Why do you call men "men" but women "females"?
Anyway, I don't think that the dimorphism would only work for spacefaring civilizations, and you raise some good ideas for it. The males can just primarily raise the male babies and the females the female, while both helping the other in the clutch and such it would work out.
>>14209137there are a lot of reasons for this that I don't want to explain right now because I'm about to go to bed. The basal metabolic rate doesn't increase linearly with a linear increase in mass it grows at a rate of about M^(3/4). So you don't save half as much food with a person that's half as massive.
I'll talk more in the morning when I wake up. Good night anons