2009-06-05
Vampire Evolution
Popular fiction typically gives vampires superhuman strength, reflexes, hearing and so on. For such abilities to evolve naturally would require an environment that made them necessary to survive, which isn't the world as we know it. Human hands + human brains are demonstrably sufficient to dominate our ecosystem.
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>Human hands + human brains are demonstrably sufficient to dominate our ecosystem.
ReplyDeleteVampires would therefore (in principle) need to be strong and smart enough to dominate the human ecosystem. Science fiction author Peter Watts has an interesting take on this in his novel Blindsight --- a great book, and it is avalable free online: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
That's a great story. Thanks for the link.
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