Activity for 299 Neandertal Variants
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Could a Flying Alien Species Develop Fire Usage? I've got an intelligent, stone-age species that looks a bit like an Azhdarchid pterosaur. It is around the size of a large eagle. They have a proboscis and a finger on each wing used for manipulating objects. They live in trees, caves, or anywhere that is not the ground. Could a species like this d... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Could Humans Evolve to be Digitigrade? Assuming humans remained hunter-gatherers, would it be anatomically possible for us to evolve digitigrade legs? Or, is our anatomy too specialized and are we stuck the way we are? I am not asking about any advantages or disadvantages of being digitigrade, just if it is possible. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Tides on a Super Close In Moon I have a moon covered in liquid water that orbits a super-Earth very closely. As you might imagine, the tides are incredibly strong on this moon. However, it is tidally locked and so does not experience tides like Earth does but, I'm unsure about one aspect of this. Would the extreme tides cause th... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Optimal proportions for flying humans? There exist humans on a world with 35% the gravity of Earth and air five times denser. These people have invented wingsuits with extensions that go past their arms and enable them to fly by flapping their arms. In the same way that certain body types make people better suited for particular sports ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Amputees, cardio, and flying humans How might the cardiovascular health of someone with both legs below the knee missing be affected? Would people be able to engage in activities that involve sustained cardio, like flying? Background: the people in the world I'm building live on a moon with 1/3 Earth's gravity and high air density. T... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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What Muscles in the Human Body Could Produce a Flight Stroke? I have an idea for a story where humans on a low g planet with a dense atmosphere wear artificial wings to fly. I know that muscles they would use to produce a flight stroke would be in the upper body, specifically in the chest, arms, shoulders, and back, but what individual muscles would make the mo... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Human Shoulder Motion & Powered Flight I have an idea for a story where human live on world with low gravity and a dense atmosphere. These humans have developed artificial wings that are attached to their arms so they can fly. Since the shoulders of birds and bats have changed to facilitate the motion needed for flight, I was wondering if... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |