Oldtimer said:
@Alex the Seeker
Hi,
are you not confusing phenotypes with species? I get that impression from your last comment on this.
Anyway, as you correctly point out, let the devs do as they please. After all it is possible to redo visual appearance of ingame phenotypes/species if motivated enough.
Rgds, Oldtimer
Actually phenotypes is something one can observe :
"Blue eyes" is a phenotype
But a specie is harder to determine than a phenotype.
Basically there is three way :
-Common phenotype --> The more phenotype in common, the closer
-DNA --> Phenotype might be different but not the DNA
-Reproduction --> If 2 individual can have a fertile baby then it is the same species
To get to our point :
He is talking about phenotype indeed but Alex is also mixing up phenotype evolution and training :
If hunters had keener sense it is only because they learn to hear.
They son didn't inherit it, because it is linked to the brain developpment. It's the same thing with a pianist. A good pianist can move his fingers faster than I ever dream of, but this is NOT evolution, this is only training.
Nevertheless, if the 3rd legion and the Redwood were the same a long time ago, but gone so different that they didn't recognize themselves as the same species, they must have been separed at least 15 000 years ago, so let's wait how our dear dev put it up