I was talking about how evolution is an inadequate word, but it's also the accepted one in the area. I suppose it can be considered a kind of personal metamorphosis. An evolutionary metamorphosis?
[ She sighs and frowns. Terminology fails here, and she's grudgingly resigned to it, and too used to absorbing new spins on old words based on what the local population uses them as. ]
But yes, that's what I was thinking. People use trial and error to test out more than they realise, and the science here seems likely to do the same. It's possible that earlier pokemon... groups? I'm not sure what that terminology is either, but possible that those kinds of trades could have happened to, trading individuals to another group and triggering that metamorphosis. Trying to replicate the same things in a controlled environment seems like the natural human progression. We know it's possible, so we have to find out how, and if we can control it.
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[ She sighs and frowns. Terminology fails here, and she's grudgingly resigned to it, and too used to absorbing new spins on old words based on what the local population uses them as. ]
But yes, that's what I was thinking. People use trial and error to test out more than they realise, and the science here seems likely to do the same. It's possible that earlier pokemon... groups? I'm not sure what that terminology is either, but possible that those kinds of trades could have happened to, trading individuals to another group and triggering that metamorphosis. Trying to replicate the same things in a controlled environment seems like the natural human progression. We know it's possible, so we have to find out how, and if we can control it.