Aw. If I'm reading this right (I hate the Yahoo browser interface of
message archives), this is the last message in this thread. And we
were havin so much fun here. Maybe I can wake it back up. Heheh, I
ain't had a good intellectual BS in days anyway. Anyway, the way I've
been working the whole Anthromorph Evolution Theory (I love coming up
with pretentious names for things) does go along the lines of fractal
evolutionary theories (which is based in complexity theory, which is
my current eggheaded hobby-horse), but the physical execution of it
is in genetics and retroviral engineering. I stopped researching it
hardcore a few months ago though, when I realized that since most
people (including me, sometimes) don't understand or care about nitty
gritty details, it's faster and easier to just make crap up and make
it sound good. It is interesting as hell to BS about how it might
work though, since so many people seem to have found ways it might
feasibly happen. The only big dent in my theory is explaining why
primate attributes and structure are the dominant factors in most
anthromorphs. Since we're all well aware of the relative weakness of
man in comparison to most other species (terrestrial species, might
as well keep it simple here =P), we usually assume that it's our
mental attributes that would give us an advantage. The only way I can
figure to reconcile these facts is to assume that somehow man's
mental advancements are somehow linked to it's psyical structure,
that that's why we have morphs, rather than just intellegent versions
of your average *insert favorite species here*.
Ah, so good to be ranting again. Ok, enough interlude, back to
reading archives. Man, is it just me, or it getting a little pouncy
in here? Oh well, seems to be no major injuries yet. We might need a
chiropractor (sp?) in here before long tho..,
-Thylacine
400+ to go...
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., "James Hardiman" <jmhcustomart_at_y...> wrote:
> I kinda view the different species as "races" rather
> than "species", for the most part. Just as human races have great
> diversity, but a core makeup, so too could the anthros. There are
> only about 50-60 anthro races existing (many have since died off,
I'm
> sure).
> Perhaps mankind was yet another of these species that died off?
> Maybe he just couldn't cut the mustard, so to say. Perhaps his
> evolution wasn't specialized enough or fast enough to keep up with
> the others?
>
> --JMH
>
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., Brendon Lieschke <9300514_at_u...> wrote:
> > The only thing that I can see as having a potential problem is
> about how all
> > the different species of anthros theoretically all seem to have
> evolved at
> > the same time. One species like as in the theory of regular human
> evolution,
> > that's be understandable, but for whatever reason that the
anthro's
> did
> > outlast the human equivilants back then, the problem lies within
> having so
> > many different species supposedly evolving to roughly the same
> physically
> > looking anthro state at the same time, wheather it happened
before
> or after
> > the humans would have died out. It seems that even a major
> cataclysmic event
> > like say, a mass-radiation exposure couldn't produce the same
> uniform effect
> > over so many living things...
> >
> > My question is what could possibly have caused the similar
> simultaneous
> > changes, breaching the inter-species barrier to be able to cause
> the same
> > general biological effect regardless of each species genetic
makeup?
> >
> > Aliens? Some sort of virus? A very few humans like us today back
> then doing
> > genetic experiments which produced the anthro's which survived,
but
> those
> > few humans ending up dying out from too little diversity left in
> the gene
> > pool (hence the reason for the experimants to try and not die
out)?
> They may
> > sound a bit far fetched or silly, but that's all my mind seems to
> come up
> > with for (un?)rational explanations at the moment...
> >
> > - MegaBrain
> > ICQ# 77172037
> >
> > "There is no spoon."
> > - The Matrix
Received on Sat Oct 27 2001 - 22:52:55 CDT