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I see aliens every day, though they are not quite what they seem. They’re bipedal, laterally symmetrical, walk upright on two legs and are more ‘evolved‘ than lower primates from whom they are related.
Commonly called ‘humans‘, or the masculine pronoun ‘man’.
I see them every day and though I am a part of their species I only superficially call them my own. They frighten me, or they would if I could feel fear anymore. More like puzzle and confuse me with their speed and there talking of not much at all, but a lot of it to vex me.
Language is English which the only language I know and am forced to use, but purely and mistakes that I don’t know about… and meanings of words that don’t go anywhere to the complexity I require.
I often wonder why human are like the way they are and immediately am overwhelmed by the entirety of ‘evolution’ thinking, feeling each little insignificant change that caused an earthworm to progress to an ape to a human. And maybe if we survive long enough we can transform in to some other thing.
I wonder every now and then why humans have only the limbs and orifices they have and not more, or less. How every animal has two hindquarters and two more in front of them and one head, one mouth and two of everything else. I think they are quite balanced and any ‘excess’ would have been ‘evolved’ out.
Take birds, when archeopteryx was very young it was no different from the dinosaurs that preceded it… only it was smaller and covered with fur. A million or so years later it only had two legs and wings where it’s arms would be. It no longer needed it’s claws or if it did it can place it on its rear legs. Therefore a griffin must remain ever more a myth banished from reality.
So from there on the knees bend back, the arms move in there own way and we’ve got a creature whose indexed himself as the top of the food chain. Well, most of the time. So this must be the blueprint for all animals out there, with a few minor variations.
Wait… I forgot millipedes, oh crabs.
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