On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Damien Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:40:49PM +0000, Jon Carey wrote: > > > > Evolutionarily speaking, the idea of a 30 year old baby is simply > > ridiculous. Anyone with a child knows that for the most part, infants are > > But Dragaerans didn't evolve. Of course they did. Directed evolution is still evolution. Ok, it's just barely possible that the Jenoine took human DNA, redesigned all the embryology and chemical pathways and whatnot in a computer simulation, built the standard Dragaeran houses from scratch, and gave them human culture, but I doubt it. Btw, the above argument re neotony is imho bunk - having children which are defenseless for the first years of their lives would strike most of the animal kingdom as ridiculous, if they got a vote, but evolution knows better. You can't say 10 years is fine but 30 isn't.