Chapter 223 Creation or Evolution?

After learning almost all the languages ​​and characters of the White Skeleton Dragon, Lin immediately found the stone slabs used by the White Skeleton Dragons to record their history. These stone slabs were placed in a corner of this room. But recorded a lot of useful information...

Lin also found many other records indicating that there were originally many different versions of the "history" of Bai Skeletal Dragon, but after integration, the version that Lin just saw was finally formed.

The entire historical record is not very complicated, but it also explains what Baikelong experienced, and there are chronological records on each experience.

Lin discovered that this group of white-skeletal dragons had at least two thousand years of history. Of course, this two thousand years is their "year", which is calculated by 1060 days and nights in a year.

If the records of Baishoulong are true, then they have developed for quite a long time since they knew how to record history.

And their birth is inseparable from the 'creator' mentioned in their history.

Lin found that, in addition to historical records, there are many record slates about the creator, most of them describe some things about the creator, they are all stories imagined with thoughts, and there are quite a lot of them, Lin can confirm that they are very Worship this creator.

In the mind of Baikulong, this creator is omnipotent, it has incomparably powerful power, it can create life, it can create everything...

This is a wonderful phenomenon. Their worship method is somewhat different from that of emerald dragons and skeleton dragons. Emerald dragons have many objects of worship. But no emerald dragon thinks they were created by a cult. And the skeletal dragon didn't think pompoms created them. The skeletal dragon thinks that pompoms guide their direction, path, and life.

As for the white skeleton dragons, according to historical records, they believe that they were shaped by the creator with mud...

... This statement seems strange, but it also means that the Baikelong didn't remember what it was like at the beginning, but only began to imagine how they were born and how they appeared when they knew how to record later. Associating with this that they are shaped by the Creator.

...Created directly from mud into a whole white skeleton dragon? This idea seems unlikely, but many components in the soil can indeed be transformed into nutrients for organisms, so it cannot be said that it is completely wrong...

In fact, Lin has also thought about this question, how do creatures come into being? But at least it’s not like what Baikelong said, if it’s possible to use clay to shape it, but later they said that the creator used rocks to create other creatures...

Generally speaking,

These creatures do not know the existence of cells. They think that a creature is a whole, not made up of many small things. They think a creature is what it is when it is spawned.

If you tell a white skeleton dragon or emerald dragon about cells, they may not believe this fact at all.

Their brains really have no data about cells. They don't know that cells have undergone a lot of complicated evolution to become like this.

When it comes to evolution, it is also a very complicated thing. In fact, evolution has many different situations. Now Lin also integrates the research on the evolution of biological history. Lin thinks that there are about three main ways of evolution.

In the beginning, that is, the most primitive evolutionary method was what Lin called the 'completely random' evolutionary method.

That is to say, every time a creature reproduces, including when it divides, it is possible to cause some changes in its body. If a certain creature has a change that is beneficial to life, it will have an advantage in life over the same kind around it. It has More opportunities to reproduce, and then slowly it will weed out others of the same kind. Over time, the creatures in this area have become creatures with this advantageous change.

This evolutionary method is quite slow, because of the random relationship, they cannot evolve quickly, and can only rely on the randomness that occurs by chance during the next reproduction, and they cannot cope with various environmental conditions such as mutations, etc.

To put it simply, this evolutionary method relies on coincidence and fate, and requires a large number of groups. If the group is too small, it may become extinct when there is no random good ability.

If organisms evolve completely in this way, it is estimated that it will be difficult for large-scale arthropods to appear after hundreds of millions of years, let alone division-of-labor species or dinosaurs. No, it is difficult to say whether multicellular organisms will be born. .

As a result, another kind of creature was born with a more powerful evolutionary method, which Lin called 'not completely random'.

It seems to be similar to the name above...but this kind of creature evolves much faster.

These 'not completely random' creatures still evolve by chance, they need coincidence at first, they have to come across something by chance, like a beetle that accidentally has something explosive in its body, and then secretes it in the body of this liquid.

At first it probably blew itself up, but it didn't die, and then it managed to repair the internal wounds, and at the same time, the beetle discovered that the fluid could blow away predators.

Then, it succeeds, it eats continuously, and then it secretes a similar liquid in the body to resist predators, and at the same time, the cells will make its internal organs stronger, resisting this explosive and not hurting the internal organs.

At this time, the cells of this beetle will completely record this brand-new ability, and its offspring will also inherit this ability. Maybe the initial ability is not very perfect, maybe it just squeezed liquid by wriggling at first, but its Each descendant improves this ability in the process of continuously using it, and in the end it even becomes a super gun barrel that can directly synthesize bursts in the body, and can rotate 360 ​​degrees!

To put it simply, as long as this new type of evolution encounters some kind of coincidence, it finds that the coincidence is beneficial to itself, and it will start to make changes in accordance with this coincidence, without going through the random changes produced by chance through reproduction and slowly stacking up.

When organisms also reproduce sexually, the resulting offspring will also have more abilities.

In fact, this 'new type of evolutionary ability' of this kind of creature also came out randomly at a certain moment, and they quickly replaced the slow, purely random creatures and became the main dominant species. Most of the creatures that Lin has seen now Creatures, including various dinosaurs and skeletal dragons, are basically these creatures, and this species is not limited to animals, including plants and even fungi. The era of purely random creatures is over.

There are only a few places where you can find some very primitive purely random fungus creatures.

However, because this new evolutionary method initially relied on chance, it is called a 'not completely random' creature.

As for the evolution of viruses... It's not easy to confirm what they are like. Next time, do a real experiment. Lin still has a very old virus, and I don't know if it will affect the current creatures. what effect.

Non-completely random creatures, they do not get rid of randomness, they will still produce random changes when they reproduce, and occasionally some changes that are not good for their health, if such a changed creature successfully reproduces, its offspring will also inherit it Similar bad changes, which are called 'genetic diseases'.

Another thing is that Lin discovered that there are some emerald dragons. If it gives birth to offspring in a very sad and melancholy situation, the character of its offspring may also become quite melancholy.

But no matter what, their evolution rate has indeed been greatly improved.

However, although the evolution rate of this kind of creature is faster than that of purely random creatures, it is still slow, and they cannot complete the rapid change requirements of division-type species for arms.

So the third evolutionary method came into being, which is currently only used by the most powerful species—the division of labor species.

That is, 'controllable evolution. '

This is also mainly the way the brain worms create new units. Although the types of brain worms are different, their larvae are all exactly the same, and the difference can only be seen when they reach the adult worms.

The larvae are highly variable. If the brainworm wants to create new units, it needs to change a larva.

The queen of the head worm controls the growth of the larva by secreting a special substance. Usually, a larva will slowly 'emergate' into an infantry when it grows to about one meter, but the head worm can prevent it from emerging, and then continue to feed the larva , when the larvae grow to an unusually large size.

Then let it feather again, and the headworm has a giant infantry!

But generally it is not enough to enlarge the infantry, because if the infantry is directly enlarged, its carapace is not suitable for this size, which will cause it to collapse instantly.

The brainworm needs to have a basic influence on the larva first, such as strengthening the carapace of the unit, strengthening the strength of the muscles, and so on.

But this is not that simple, because the brain worm relies on the "special substance" secreted by the queen to cause the larva to "mutate", but the brain worm itself does not know what it will mutate into, and it needs to wait until it becomes an adult to observe.

This will of course produce some failed products, but once there is something useful, the brainworm will immediately record it with the record ball, and then make further changes on this basis.

Giant units like the Earth Breaker were born after a lot of modifications and enhancements by many brain bugs.

Although it seems very complicated, the speed at which new arms appear is much faster than the above two evolutionary methods.

The Inca swarm directly omitted this step, and they directly 'stolen' the evolutionary achievements of other species, which led to their unparalleled speed of evolution.

However, no matter which evolution method is good, Lin does not belong to their system, and Lin's evolution method is very different from theirs.

Everything is from small to complex, this will not change...

However, where did the initial tinyness come from? (To be continued..)

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