Re: Evolution on Almea
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:11 pm
I don't see why the behavior of the Eynleyni and other subjugated peoples is so objectionable. Some of you guys seem to be assuming that the Almeans are just like us, but it should be bourne in mind that they are aliens with a different kind of lineage who exist in a universe with different (albeit superficially similar) physical laws. The pace of evolution might be different, and anyway Zompman already said that the Almean races have brains that are unlike ours.
Edit: forgot to mention that there has been civilization on Almea for tens of thousands of years and this domestication process may have started in human prehistory, but not the ktuvoks'. Also the extant humanoids are already highly diverse by our standards, as there are four different species of hominid, and it's not at all hard to imagine that the "human" species is also more diverse internally than humans on Earth. It could be that what the ktuvoks cultivated was already a distinct variety of the species.
Edit: forgot to mention that there has been civilization on Almea for tens of thousands of years and this domestication process may have started in human prehistory, but not the ktuvoks'. Also the extant humanoids are already highly diverse by our standards, as there are four different species of hominid, and it's not at all hard to imagine that the "human" species is also more diverse internally than humans on Earth. It could be that what the ktuvoks cultivated was already a distinct variety of the species.