A couple plus weeks ago I got into an argument with a player in Guild Wars 2 about the Norn, basically giant vikings who are often a common/popular fantasy trope race, and biology. See I had this Scientific Intuition that despite what they represent animals do not commonly grow bigger in in adaptation to cold climate. As this know it all kept mocking me that humans would turn into these giant Norn people. I did not know the details and as he continued to LOL me I just fumed and fumed and decided just to leave. So I discovered what he and many other folks are thinking of, its called Bergmanns Law, which has recently been debunked. Size is determined by nutrients and supply available and genetics, otherwise if this player and those who created races like the Norn were correct Artic Pigeons would be huge but are not. The biggest land mammals lived in hot climates and the biggest land animals did so too (Dinosaurs) and Whales get so big because of enormous supply of high protien krill to pig out on. So this just means I have an instinctual inclination to paleontology and cant wait to one day studying it and to that player and those who think like him I simply must say.....youtube/watch?v=MDtSf9pseOw
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 01:54:45 +0000
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