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| Topic Started: Sep 5 2008, 07:37 PM (2,270 Views) | |
| Yorick | Sep 5 2008, 07:37 PM Post #1 |
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*Alternate timeline finds that through mercy of early man, neanderthals did not go exinct when the cro-magnon migrated to Europe. It's present day. What happens? I think that humans would today would still be at around the same point in our civilization. We still have coomputers connected to the interent, airplanes, telephones, etc. The neanderthal on the other hand are our servants/pets. They're not slaves like the Africans of pre-Civil War America or ancient Rome and the like but rather treated as a higher form of animal. Much like the goblins of the "Harry Potter" books. They're treated higher than our companion pets like cats and dogs but since they can talk and have hands with an opposable thumb, they're very helpful and we're practically symbiotic. Humans rule the world with our mastery of science and technology while our primitive cousins pass us the test tubes. *According to scientific law, an ecosystem has a fixed number of species. When a new species is introduced to a foreign ecosystem, either that new species dies out because it can't adapt or the new species thrives and drives a a native rival or food animal to extinction. For the purposes of this scenario, this law was upheld because of man's tendency to step out of his biology and live alongside the neaderthal. Edited by Yorick, Nov 9 2008, 12:32 AM.
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| Holben | Apr 18 2010, 01:34 PM Post #46 |
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I dunno- maybe it's something to do with how H. Sapeins reached the far east so late? That said, the Neanderthals were very confined to begin with in their evolution. They were already surrounded by other hominids. |
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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. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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