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Without Man; The Alternative Zoology of the Future
Topic Started: Aug 5 2008, 11:24 AM (5,116 Views)
Reedstilt
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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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The Dodo
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For Madagascar you could have the giant lemurs and the sloth like lemurs in the tree tops.
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Not to mention elephant birds.
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