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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9139943" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I think the scientific consensus these days is that they are homo sapiens neanderthalensis, and that is why the species in Shadowrun are so named. Homo neanderthalensis is acceptable as a shorter, somewhat less formal, name.Oh no, not anywhere near instantly. Depending on the world, they either are part of why those places are like they are, having grown with the forest, transitioned with the savannah as it became desert, etc., or they adapted in an ancient time when they were still a young folk, and millennia later they are who they are will not be moved.Well that's the thing, compare humans to Turtles. You change the environment dramatically of a population of turtles, a lot of them are going to die. Humans, though, will just cooperate and innovate into being safe and then thriving in this new environment. And that was true when flint knapping was the most advanced technology we had figured out. So goblins are so adaptable that they have evolved into a set of bodies and minds and instincts and urges that let them thrive in many environment, even though they aren't as heavily adapted as another species might be to a very specific environment. Meanwhile, elves don't change on an individual level in one generation, but they hyper-adapt to a specific environment, becoming eventually perfectly adapted to that environment.</blockquote>