Questions tagged [natural-growth]
For questions about the growth and development of a certain species or object without the mediation of something artificial or mechanical. This may refer to Fauna or Flora.
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How would trees which contain magic react to being cut down? [closed]
In my fantasy world, trees inhabit the magic that flows through all life. This magic contains the energy of both earth (roots) and air (branches), foregrounding the balance that is needed in both ...
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How would life, that thrives on the magic of trees, survive in an area with limited trees?
In my fantasy world, there's 'magic' which is produced by trees; flowing from the roots up to the branches, which send out the magic into the atmosphere, allowing it to flow through all life. Humans ...
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What evolutionary traits would make human child-to-adultsize growth be extremely fast, and how fast can it get?
In my setting I have a species of anthropomorphs (basically humans) that grow from baby to full-size in the shortest time period possible. The babies are the size of human babies. How short can that ...
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What climate would be ideal for abnormally large trees, with people living among them?
I'm writing a fantasy with trees which are extremely wide, and fairly tall. Their width would be about 40-50 metres.
So I was wondering if the climate needed to be similar to that of a rainforest, or ...
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If a species keeps growing throughout their 200-300 year life, what "growth curve" would be most reasonable/realistic?
In my fantasy world, I have the suchians, a race of reptilian humanoids that live for 200-300 years and keep growing throughout their lives. I am wondering what a reasonable "growth curve" ...
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What is fastest believable growth rate and reproduction cycle for a 150-300-meters-tall tree?
The trees in question are 150-300-meters-tall, 18 meters in diameter and have no branches except at the very top where each branch has a single leaf that takes up the whole branch. Its bark is thick ...
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What evolutionary pressures would result in metabolic INefficiency?
What evolutionary pressures would result in metabolic IN-efficiency being a fitness-increasing adaptation in an animal?
By "metabolic efficiency", I mean "percentage of usable energy ...
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Life on a planet with little axial tilt
As we know Earth has axial tilt and a nearly circular orbit. What if there was a habitable planet with almost no axial tilt? Obviously there wouldn't be seasons induced by tilt, instead the seasons ...
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What is a good rate of growth of size and numbers of creatures that start with a microorganism?
I am thinking of a story where a meteor carrying a microorganism lands into some hot spring mountain caverns that between a city and a desert and evolves to be able to able to take DNA samples from ...
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Determining Effects of Natural Selection on Mermaids
Okay, after a lot of thought, I decided that mermen wouldn't exist in my setting. Why? Because in various IRL situations, balance is necessary for proper function. If men represent land and mermaids ...
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What are some common, metabolizable materials used to reinforce bones in sci-fi settings?
I'm trying to write about a species of genetically-altered super-livestock with reinforced bones.
What are some common materials on Earth that a biological organism could ingest and metabolize that ...
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natural water filters, natural water de-pollution
Memories of my childhood come by reminding me of how I used to swim in the Danube river, until the age of 6 when after a walk along the coast I saw bodies of various animals rotting by the river, cows,...
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Would different types of species change drastically ove the course of 1000 years if humans went extinct? [closed]
If humans all went extinct from war and lack of resources and left no trace except for their big cities, would any species change drastically over the course of 1000 years? Would they have notable ...
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What if we all grew down? [closed]
What would the global impact be for growing down?
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Today, we all grow with our feet on the ground and our height goes up.
But what if we (at birth) started at the maximum height that we ...
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How soon can we realize that we stopped aging?
One night a meteor impact occurred over the Pacific and a strange green glow sweeps across the entire globe, in that moment our body can no longer age in fact this phenomenon seems to only affect ...
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