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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dame duergar" data-source="post: 3944009" data-attributes="member: 58119">demi-human evolution in the d&d world:Hallo, I'm new in this forum, and I'd like to share wieh you all a notion that I'v had a while ago. I'v had thoughts about the evolutionary pathways of some of d&d world's demi-human races, and came up with some ideas: First of all, I reckon that dwarves have decended from a small population of neanderthals that survived by adopting a subteranian ecological niche, and by so surviving into modern time. I thought that dwarves should be decended from a humaniod that's different from Homo sapiens, since humans and dwarves cannot breed together and froduce a fertile offspring. Beside that, dwarves posses physical characteristics typical to neanderthals, such as thicker bones, a barrel chest and a larger muscle mass. I think that both elves and orks are two different branches that have splited from the Homo sapiens, since both of them can breed with humans and fertile offspring. Halflings may have splited from humans earlyer than elves and orks.Goblins may have splited from the Australopitacus (a.k.a "Lucy") branch' since some of thier physical characteristics are more monkey- like than human-like, such as their fecial features and arm- chest ratio (longer arms).I hope someone would like to start a discussion about this topic with me, and offer some other ideas.</blockquote>