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Without Man; The Alternative Zoology of the Future
Topic Started: Aug 5 2008, 11:24 AM (5,118 Views)
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This is a project I've been considering for a while, but haven't really started up yet. Figured it might be interesting to collaborates with some other speculative biologists on this one.

The premise is humans never evolved. Turning the dial back to Australopithecus, we replay the last four million years and project a bit into the future as well (not sure how far yet; we can collectively decide on that.) Australopithecus can give rise to other genera, but Intelligence of our caliber never evolves, at least not right way. Our end game might be the advent of a different intelligent lifeform on earth.

The main point of the project is to imagine an alternative world where the changes humans have caused to the environment and the extinctions exacerbated by human activity never happened, and project that world into the future.

So who wants to play?
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Holben
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cool!

I like anything with dragons.
Or dragon-lizards
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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SIngemeister
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I'm definately going to try my hand at this in a proper priiject. Anyone want to join me? I've mainly assigned myself to Oceania, so they can have wherever.
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Count with me to help
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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Hawaii, people, Hawaii! Imagine what all those flightless ducks and rails would have evolved into without us ****ing everything up!
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Aug 8 2008, 09:55 AM
Mammoths would live very well today if men didn't evolved. There were pygmy mammoths living in islands as recently as 1700 B.C.
There have been growing arguments that the extinction of the megafauna of the northern hemisphere was due not to humans but from a comet (or other extraterrestrial body) exploding in the atmosphere. If this was the case then the mammoths, sabertooths and other megafauna of the ice age would still die out.
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Carlos
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Oh please, asteroids have been falling a lot in the last 2 million years. Plus, we had the supervolcano things and no large animal as far as I'm concerned has died out
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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He does have a point, the extinction of a lot of the megafauna was more complex than just humans, although humans did play a part in a lot of the extinctions.
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were the trees of Easter Island ever mentioned in this thread?
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australias megafauna would be thriving with no humans or the dingoes they introduced
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The New Zealand mega fauna would certainly be thriving as well.
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SIngemeister
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So, nyone else wanna help? JF, what continent do you want?
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Carlos
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South America, perhaps Madagascar as well
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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SIngemeister
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Okay dokey. Think we could eventually warrant a subforum to ourselves?
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Carlos
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Maybe, if Parasky is feeling generous
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

My Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/Carliro

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Well, let's get the ideas flowing first.
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