What's on your mind?

[LagunaX1]

im skeptical enough to call bullshit on bullshit that's obviously a mushroom trip... im saying it's a little strange that primates are the only ones with two arms, two legs, and hands. hands are the important thing, dolphins don't have hands, clams don't have hands.

one if the eps i watched included a geological survey of Nazca, and how it's the best place to get an idea of what minerals can be found on Earth. they also put forh the idea that ET's 'bred' us to be laborers for whatever they were doing on earth. all the stuff i've read agree that the Nordics are benevolent, Greys are a-holes, and reptilians are out to kill us all. it's all a bunch of really fringey ideas that are perfect to cherry pick for weird stuff to put in a game.

Well there are A LOT of species of primate. And it just demonstrates that evolution is something that happens over time and keeps happening independent of other species. You can also pick out similar things in other speices and make the same claim that its odd. Like bats are the only animals with their type of wings, their wings aren't like a birds at all. Also why isn't it equally strange that dolphins and whales and such are the only group of mammals with fins? Just because it's common among fish, even though dolphins are more related to us than they are to fish? In that case what about the Koala Bear which has two legs, two arms, two hands and two opposable thumbs just like us even though they aren't primates? If anything it's strange there is another animal that isn't a primate that has them, not the other way round. But that's explained by convergent evolution anyway.


But yeah, the simple answer is that it's just a late addition in evolution, just like self awareness, dolphins fins and bats wings. Also the ability to recognize yourself in a mirror, which apart from the great apes very few animals have shown to be able to do. I think the consciousness/self awareness route is much more convincing then us having hands anyway for an alien theory. Anyway, I don't see it strange as evolution didn't all happen at once, so certain things would have had to have evolved later than others, and it's impossible for the majority of species to share a late evolution (and by late I just mean it was a recent genetic mutation). The opposable thumb is just one of those things that evolved more recently.
But yeah, I agree the alien angle can be interesting stuff to consider for games.

@Clockwork: You'll scare the customers away! lol