Timeline for how to make a bipedal non colony ant species somewhat believable in a world 20 million years in the future?
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| Dec 5, 2021 at 12:01 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 11:06 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 11:02 | comment | added | PcMan | I'm having a difficult time making the concepts of "Ant" and "Non-Colony" talk to each other. You could do it, of course, but the end result will only be vaguely ant-shaped, not "Ant". | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 10:52 | comment | added | Lemming | So are they about hand-sized or are we about the size of their foot? There's some wiggle room with your wording on their size. I'm willing to assume they're the smaller one with regards to other details but this is just to make sure. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 10:48 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2021 at 0:05 | history | edited | Creaturemal |
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| Aug 11, 2021 at 20:50 | comment | added | John O | With Earth-based life, you probably have some lower limit on the size of the brain if you want each individual organism to be roughly as intelligent as a human. There's some wiggle room, and some creative ways to sidestep the limit (especially if you go with alien life), but I don't think you can have them be half an inch tall. The other stuff? Species slip into and out of hive/colony mode all the time... not all bees are like that, for instance. One of Baxter's novels, humans become hive people in just a few centuries. That part's fine. But you'll need to get them bigger. | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 20:41 | history | edited | Creaturemal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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