On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:38:42PM -0700, Philip Hart wrote: > 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. > 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. Actually that's what I've always assumed. > 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. Good point. -xx- Damien X-)