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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8368039" data-attributes="member: 7030755">People are starting to use the term species to describe different creatures, but I'm not sure that's fully worked out.&nbsp; Do all humanoids share a common ancestor?&nbsp; Is humanoid the genus? Are they able to all have offspring with each other, and can those offspring also have children?&nbsp; What % of their dna is common?&nbsp; These strike me as more questions for Sci Fi worldbuilding.Whereas in fantasy usually the different creatures have some kind of magical origin and are fairly static in terms of any 'evolutionary' development.&nbsp; Given that their origins are basically just-so stories, some amount of archetypal characterization should be expected.&nbsp; The problem comes when your fantasy world produces (intentionally or not) and describes creatures in ways that are not only essentialist in-fiction, but take up vocabulary and figurations from harmful real-world stereotypes.&nbsp; For ASI I think saying that some beings are inherently more smart, for example, mimics real-world prejudice in ways that some people find uncomfortable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8368039, member: 7030755"] People are starting to use the term species to describe different creatures, but I'm not sure that's fully worked out. Do all humanoids share a common ancestor? Is humanoid the genus? Are they able to all have offspring with each other, and can those offspring also have children? What % of their dna is common? These strike me as more questions for Sci Fi worldbuilding. Whereas in fantasy usually the different creatures have some kind of magical origin and are fairly static in terms of any 'evolutionary' development. Given that their origins are basically just-so stories, some amount of archetypal characterization should be expected. The problem comes when your fantasy world produces (intentionally or not) and describes creatures in ways that are not only essentialist in-fiction, but take up vocabulary and figurations from harmful real-world stereotypes. For ASI I think saying that some beings are inherently more smart, for example, mimics real-world prejudice in ways that some people find uncomfortable. [/QUOTE]

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