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Posts by Michael Stachowsky‭

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Q&A What would be the consequences of a world that has only one dominant species of non-oceanic animal life?

I have a world that has unexpected lifeforms detected. There are to-be-revealed reasons for it, but the way the ecosystem is set up is: Microbial life is abundant everywhere There is a single sp...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭

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Q&A What would be the consequences of a proto-human species that could generalize but not abstract well?

I define "generalization" as the ability to put things together into groups based on common characteristics. I define "abstraction" to be the ability to articulate what those characteristics actua...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭

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Q&A How could a hive-mind without true individuals create technology?

Imagine a species in which the ego never developed. There is no self-direction. This species is always making noise, however, and it is through this noise that the society itself experiences the ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭

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Q&A Would having more than two sexes decrease the number of individuals required to have a sustainable population from a genetic perspective?

On a world made up of many small islands, each island cannot support a very large population. Although sometimes individuals from one island make it across the ocean to another, this is usually a ...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭

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Q&A What is my breathable atmosphere composed of?

This planet's atmosphere has oxygen at a partial pressure that is breathable to humans, and the rest of the atmosphere is, at least, not made up primarily of Nitrogen (that is, it's not just Earth'...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Michael Stachowsky‭

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