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How do serpentine aliens move their eggs to reach tall trees?
Imagine there lives a serpentine alien species on a hospitable terrestrial planet in a galaxy far far away, they are found around the swampy area and the entire place will become waterlogged during ...
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How would predation work in an empathic universe?
In my world, there is a plane of existence whose laws of reality work differently than ours. In this plane, thoughts are not private. The boundaries between the mind and reality are slim, and thus ...
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Selection pressures acting on the Goliath from 'Evolve?' [closed]
I know someone's already asked wether this thing was feasible, but I had a slightly different question: I wanted to know what kinds of things could drive something to... well 'evolve' the way the ...
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if a bipedal dog were to evolve, what main cultural and behavioral patterns would follow? [closed]
We can see it in most of us humans. Most homininae, including gorillas apes and humans, act generally similar even if we look really different. We laugh in the same way, we stay in families the same ...
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Can humans be conditioned to become non-violent and forget how to defend themselves?
Okay, so here's a quick scenario. Humans over the course of time have been selected to breed based on how docile they are. The violent ones are exterminated and all outside sources have been shut out. ...
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Do aliens gamble? [closed]
I have read a number of sources that indicate that gambling behaviours in humans are the result of evolutionary adaptations.
If gambling is the result of the specific evolutionary history of our ...
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What Purpose Would a Unicorn's Horn Serve in the Wild?
This famous tapestry shows all the "modernized" traits of a unicorn--basically just a pale-colored horse with a single horn on its head. Of course, single-horned animals do and did exist:
The only ...
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