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What creatures do you think would survive a Technomagic "Modern/Future" world
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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1756699" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>If you are considering a mass extinction event, then the most obvious question is may not be answered in the way one might think.</p><p></p><p>In previous mass extinctions, the Earth lost a large precentage of the species that lived upon her - large as in an estimated 50% to 95%, depending upon which event you're talking about. This has some implications:</p><p></p><p>1) Conditions during the extinction event are so bad that survival isn't so much a matter of fitness as it is luck. It becomes less a question of who dies and who thrives, and more a question of who dies and who manages to just barely scrape through.</p><p></p><p>2) Conditions during the extinction event are likely very different from conditions just before of just after the event. Species are likely to survive due to some quirk that applies during the event, but not before or after. What gets you through the global winter of an asteroid strike, or the ecological upheval of technological development is probably not applicable under more stable conditions. So, after the event, you may have a bunch of species that really aren't all that well adapted to conditions, but they are what you have left. </p><p></p><p>3) After extinction events, you typically have a period of rapid speciation. Even if coyotes survive, pretty soon you don't have coyotes anymore, as they've speciated to fill in all the carnivore niches left open by others dying off.</p><p></p><p>This can lead you to look at your fantasy world in new ways - technomagic or not. Perhaps you end up with a whole bunch of humanoid races as part of the post-event speciation?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 1756699, member: 177"] If you are considering a mass extinction event, then the most obvious question is may not be answered in the way one might think. In previous mass extinctions, the Earth lost a large precentage of the species that lived upon her - large as in an estimated 50% to 95%, depending upon which event you're talking about. This has some implications: 1) Conditions during the extinction event are so bad that survival isn't so much a matter of fitness as it is luck. It becomes less a question of who dies and who thrives, and more a question of who dies and who manages to just barely scrape through. 2) Conditions during the extinction event are likely very different from conditions just before of just after the event. Species are likely to survive due to some quirk that applies during the event, but not before or after. What gets you through the global winter of an asteroid strike, or the ecological upheval of technological development is probably not applicable under more stable conditions. So, after the event, you may have a bunch of species that really aren't all that well adapted to conditions, but they are what you have left. 3) After extinction events, you typically have a period of rapid speciation. Even if coyotes survive, pretty soon you don't have coyotes anymore, as they've speciated to fill in all the carnivore niches left open by others dying off. This can lead you to look at your fantasy world in new ways - technomagic or not. Perhaps you end up with a whole bunch of humanoid races as part of the post-event speciation? [/QUOTE]
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