For three year , wondering biology enthusiast Gert van Dijk has been writing a hard science fiction web log call Furahan Biology and Allied Matters , which deals with the realistic ecosystem on the imaginary planet Furaha . It ’s a gem trove of biogeekery .
Van Dijk deals with everything from hexapods to plant – all with references to real - world scientific discipline to explain his bio design alternative . He also include longsighted segment on the satellite ’s history , from fossil to the journal of its early explorers . Here ’s a swell routine from the spot he wrote on the fish you see above :
But I venture that some of you will require to know more about the various ‘ Fishes ’ , that are just called that by Furahan hoi polloi because the word do easy , not because it is biologically right . In this sense the early Horizonists seem to have gone for the old custom of labelling just about any type of water animal a ‘ Pisces ’ . ‘ Crayfish ’ and ‘ starfish ’ come to mind as well . I will not go into the early development of Fishes I , II and II , that stick with one another in geological clip . Not so for Fishes IV , V and VI , shown above in a rough sketch . Here is a quote from an authorized source , Nyoroge ’s “ Broad Stokes ” :
“ From this point on hexapod evolution becomes more complex . ‘ Fishes III ’ gave rise to three novel groups , ‘ Fishes IV , V and VI ’ , all of which had three pairs of fins . This has induce a nifty deal of mental confusion . There are two schools of intellection trying to explain the ‘ Fishes III Division ’ , as the debate has become experience . The ‘ Hexaphile School ’ holds that Fishes IV , V and VI develop individually from multifinned root , and have three pairs of limbs in common , because three pairs of limbs are innately superior to any other number , without in reality explicate in much contingent why this should be the case . The ‘ Monophyletic School ’ contends that all three groups have three pairs simply because they all stem from a individual ancestor . This is somewhat surprising in view of other deviation between Fishes IV , V and VI , which do not suggest a common ancestry . The ‘ Contingency opinion ’ , which has been gaining strength recently , hold up that there is no congenital advantage in any number of limb , and that all three groups have the same act of limbs by stroke . Molecular Cladisticians keep dumb about the affair , due to a deficiency of clear grounds one way or the other . ”
This kind of intense , charmingly maniac worldbuilding warms the screaming void at the center of my nerdy middle .
you may cut into as deeply as you want into the biomechanics of foreign life form on theFurahan Biology and Allied Mattersblog .
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