Speculative Evolution

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Bionicle of War

Bionicle of War

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Speculative evolution is a genre of science fiction which aims to construct hypothetical organisms and ecosystems based upon real world evolutionary principles. Probably some of the best known examples out there are Man After Man by Dougal Dixon and All Tomorrows by M.C. Koseman.

In this thread, we discuss art and literature pertaining to fictional natural environments. Though most existing material tends to focus on the possible future of our own world, images of prehistoric, extraterrestrial or completely fantastic landscapes are also welcome.
 
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The Future is Wild is a 2002 documentary by the BBC/Discovery Channel/Animal Planet that purports to be scientifically accurate. It shows Earth in 5, 100, and 200 million years.
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Some of the creature designs are kinda silly looking.
 
I like how much this field draws from actual quirks of evolution. I don’t think any writer has ever looked at eusocial organisms (e.g. ants, bees, wasps, etc) and not thought about intelligent life taking that form. Usually you see it in sci-fi in the form of sterile, mass-produced clone armies which is exactly what the worker castes fucking are in ant colonies and so on.
 
A Clockwork Soybean said:
Speculative evolution is a genre of science fiction which aims to construct hypothetical organisms and ecosystems based upon real world evolutionary principles. Probably some of the best known examples out there are Man After Man by Dougal Dixon and All Tomorrows by M.C. Koseman.

In this thread, we discuss art and literature pertaining to fictional natural environments. Though most existing material tends to focus on the possible future of our own world, images of prehistoric, extraterrestrial or completely fantastic landscapes is also welcome.
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Man After Man is unironically one my favorite illustrated books, it's one of the most professional and hilarious series of shitposts I've ever seen. it's beautiful.
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unfortunately, some people take speculative human evolution seriously. I think it was NatGeo who published this:
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and threw me into tard rage because it's fucking retarded. It makes no fucking sense, NatGeo is run by children. Assuming we're going to evolve into anything but goblins have sawdust in their skulls.
 
Stephanie Bustcakes said:
The Future is Wild is a 2002 documentary by the BBC/Discovery Channel/Animal Planet that purports to be scientifically accurate. It shows Earth in 5, 100, and 200 million years.
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Some of the creature designs are kinda silly looking.
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It also got a fucking cutesy cartoon adaptation
 
I liked the touching upon this subject that Seven Eves gave it.
 
vulgar said:
Man After Man is unironically one my favorite illustrated books, it's one of the most professional and hilarious series of shitposts I've ever seen. it's beautiful.
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How the fuck can you bring up Man After Man without bringing up this masterpiece of an image?
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There are entire sites and all dedicated to the projects themed around this, and recently, such ungodly amount of SJWs got into it, I completely yeeted myself away from entire scene.
Why.
 
UnsufficentBoobage said:
There are entire sites and all dedicated to the projects themed around this, and recently, such ungodly amount of SJWs got into it, I completely yeeted myself away from entire scene.
Why.
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Usually, I don't say stuff like this, but holy fuck this ruined my childhood. I loved the idea of coming up with another wave of evolution for animals as a kid, and hearing that it's getting ruined by fat tranny blobs is devastating. :(
 
Yukari Yakumo said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NpVg-hA349IUsually, I don't say stuff like this, but holy fuck this ruined my childhood. I loved the idea of coming up with another wave of evolution for animals as a kid, and hearing that it's getting ruined by fat tranny blobs is devastating. :(
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I think older projects are still fine, but if you google specbio art, 75% of times you run into pronoun brigade T_T
Or maybe it is just my luck (and being on Tumblr lots).
 
UnsufficentBoobage said:
I think older projects are still fine, but if you google specbio art, 75% of times you run into pronoun brigade T_T
Or maybe it is just my luck (and being on Tumblr lots).
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Any specific links you'd like to share? The only site I'm really familiar with is Orion's Arm, and that's really more science fiction and space opera than speculative evolution.
 
A Clockwork Soybean said:
Any specific links you'd like to share?
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Er, I used to, basically, mostly follow people through deviantart, then to their blogs. As I ragequit all of them, plus deviantart Eclipse is nearly unmanageable to me, I barely could help.
Just avoid tumblr and twitter threads on the subject, I guess?
Sorry ><
 
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