While this is an interesting read and all, and as a masters-holding biologist myself I can appreciate the concepts, there's a lot of this that just... well, it takes the whole idea too far. I know you were just having fun, but 1) there's no lore to support a lot of what you said (which you did admit), 2) you disregard the additional layer of ethics and morality that a sentient species deals with (miqo'te are sentient just as real life humans; they are not lions or birds or any other organisms that operate on a largely instinctive level), and 3) you disregard the external cultural influences on miqo'te over the 500 or so years they've been on Eorzea alongside everyone else.
In the end, it turns this into a nice thought exercise but ultimately largely useless. I doubt any nunh in a Seeker tribe would kill children that are not their own. There's no indication that miqo'te experience "heat" like real cats do (they aren't cats). Cross-breeding seems like it would be something more subject to the whims of an increasingly "globalized" culture rather than the species' biology.
Basically, you've taken the perspective of the biologist too far to be able to draw very many useful conclusions. When considering sentient, social organisms that interact with different sentient, social organisms, it's absolutely vital to consider the significance of abstract thought, from which culture is born. You can't analyze a species like the miqo'te (or the elezen, or hyur, or lalafel, or roegadyn) as though they were completely removed from their culture and the cultures of every other species they've shared space and friends and family with for generations. It just doesn't work that way.
In the end, it turns this into a nice thought exercise but ultimately largely useless. I doubt any nunh in a Seeker tribe would kill children that are not their own. There's no indication that miqo'te experience "heat" like real cats do (they aren't cats). Cross-breeding seems like it would be something more subject to the whims of an increasingly "globalized" culture rather than the species' biology.
Basically, you've taken the perspective of the biologist too far to be able to draw very many useful conclusions. When considering sentient, social organisms that interact with different sentient, social organisms, it's absolutely vital to consider the significance of abstract thought, from which culture is born. You can't analyze a species like the miqo'te (or the elezen, or hyur, or lalafel, or roegadyn) as though they were completely removed from their culture and the cultures of every other species they've shared space and friends and family with for generations. It just doesn't work that way.
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