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Help With Dicynosapiens?; Descendant of Sectioned Dicynomole
Topic Started: Mar 18 2010, 10:39 PM (479 Views)
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Do they still live underground? If so a fire wouldn't be one of their top priorities.
I don't know much about pheromones, but I think most would be universal. Maybe they could combine different pheromones to produce a different language.
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Why can't they evolve better hands, as a consequence of selection for complex tool use?

Or evolve trunks, maybe?
My speculative dinosaur project. With lots of fluff, parental care and mammalian-level intelligence, and the odd sophont.
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Yes it has.
I think pheromones would make a good language. Most of the 'universal' ones would probably be like human face expressions wouldn't they?
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I can see that working. :) With the added effect in the dominant sect of controlling certain behaviours in its subordinates.
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So does the dominant sect controls with pheromones?
What about pheromones combined with clicking to form words, would that work?
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

These creatures don't have to have hands to write. They could easily use their tusks.
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Pheromone writting would be just objects that smell of a pheromone wouldn't it? That wouldn't last long.
Since a lot of them live underground and have a good sense of smell since they communicate with pheromones I assume they don't have a good sense of sight. This might make something like writing not work well.
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Maybe the pheromone could be concentrated, a mucus like form or something. Then some indivduals have jobs to keep the pheromone messages up by going around and restoring it daily. Don't know if that would completely stop the fade completely.
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