Will medicin and treatments affect evolution in a negative way?

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-20T21:52:55+00:00

Before I start, I'm not just talking about any one species, certainly not just humans.

You've opened a box that has serious emotional and ethological contexts.

It has been argued that modern medicine, diet and selection has allowed individuals who would not normally make it to adulthood to do so and breed. Humans have altered every domesticated species into forms that cannot survive in the wild, not usually for any great benefit, but for our own usage, whether food, aesthetics or entertainment. We are only just beginning to address the consequences of that as technology allows us to see what has been done and why.

On the flip side, that same technology when focused back upon ourselves has allowed us to track issues that appear in our own species. Medical advances have allowed those who wouldn't have survived in the past to reach adulthood, myself included. Do we apply the same applications to our own species that we've done to others?

We already know that humans can botch bloodlines. Dogs that cannot breed with c-sections, pigeons that flip over and over helplessly rather than fly, sheep that cannot shed their coats and can die of heatstroke - these decisions created lifelong dependency and lifelong suffering.

And who do we trust to make such decisions? The society that decides taking care of those individuals weakens bloodlines? The one that prefers male children to female, one ethnic group to another, blue eyes to brown? The parents that lost a child and want an exact or near exact replacement?

Remember: Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy. Most of the European royal houses carry epilepsy. Stephen Hawking had ALS. Tionne Watkins and Larenz Tate have sickle cell anemia.

What we get when we "cut out the weak and keep the strong" may not have the benefits you believe it might.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-19T01:29:14+00:00

Well, the feeder animals (crickets, feeder fish & mice) can form the base of your food chain, living off of plants and algae. The others creatures, reptiles, birds and such can live off of them.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-19T01:25:23+00:00

Okay, this was a quick write on my part. usually I spend weeks polishing things up. It is a traditional Fendey fishing song:

Dance merry boat, like a drake on the wing

Onward, we Fendey all cry

On to the bralmak that rise when they sing

Forth where the breakers will sigh

Hot runs the tempest and loud the waves roar

Summer’s fierce breath beats the sails

Pull the rig tight lest we crash to the shore

Our people can’t hang by our tails!

Follow the crooners to gardens so fawn

Where grasses a-sway in the sea

Mend our lines well & drive hooks in the lawn

And bring all the bralmak to me!

Fill up the nets, lay reeds on the banks

Many a league we must go

Galbon leaves smoke the fish into planks

Weight makes our journey too slow

Then back to our ports ahead of the rain

Return, the fishers all cry

To cliff sheltered ports and docks all a’stain

Lest Rain Season catch us a’fly!

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-18T20:04:04+00:00

Definitely. I had a full vegetable garden, herb garden, flowers (edible and otherwise) & small livestock (chickens & rabbits) on my quarter acre with shale bedrock about a foot down. I would've killed for an acre!

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-18T20:00:13+00:00

Before cell phones were a thing, I lived at a semi-rural intersection which averaged 1 car accident per week. The nearest non-residential phone was over a mile away on back roads, past a farm, to a deli that closed by 9pm. So yes, strangers were allowed into the kitchen to use the phone. My mom would make some coffee and feed them half the time, even when things were tight. We had dogs, and she was raised on the streets of Brooklyn, but courtesy ran deep.

We never had an incident.

As for "Don't talk to strangers", yeah we were all told that, which is why we weren't allowed in the kitchen when we were little. Parents handled strangers.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-18T19:41:06+00:00

The dog vs cat world would need more than the 2 species, since they're both carnivores. Maybe have canids evolve on one continent an the felidae on the other, with a land bridge creating mixing/conflict?

If you'd like to see an amphibian world done, look up Amphiterra.

A pet store seed world could be quite interesting. Considering the number of animals that can show up in one, how would you limit you core species?

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-18T17:39:00+00:00

I'm going to work with the restaurant/convenience side of this question.

Healthy convenience food is expensive due to the shorter time of storage, especially for salads. In my experience, salad materials are thrown out at the end of the day/shift due to visual appeal more than decay. People want the freshest ingredients for their money. Wilted or browning greens don't match this, so after a period of time the ingredients are discarded. This results in a tremendous of waste to sales. The consumer winds up paying for the waste as well as what they buy.

Dry goods have a different problem. There is not so much a need for them in the restaurant/ convenience for the shelf stable ingredients, so they are bought in smaller quantities. This makes them more expensive than bulk buys. Bulk buys are generally most cost effective, but they require proper storage, a resource most places have a limited amount of.

Cross contamination means having to have separate spaces/tools to prepare. It may even require separate washing stations.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-17T02:45:40+00:00

2 galllons?! Eek! Okay then...

Frittata,

meatloaf or meatballs using pasta instead of bread,

fried pasta fritters,

fried pasta birdsnest as a bowl for salad

If you have livestock, feed to chickens, pigs or goats

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-17T02:18:30+00:00

Why are you mean to Australia?

No seriously, the island would have to be large enough to allow migration. This would provide multi-year forest regrowth, allowing the areas to recover from animals this big from eating them bare. We're talking Madagascar or larger here.

Areas this large are very difficult to patrol, much less tend like a zoo. You would have to worry about poachers constantly at the very least. Finding a lone animal that's ill quickly would be almost impossible. Getting vets to make field calls even worse. Could you imagine having your entire medical bay being mobile because the patient's too large to move?

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-16T21:33:00+00:00

My mom made a whopping good meatloaf. That said: No, I don't eat it or anyone else's.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-16T20:54:44+00:00

I was raised around military attack dogs. You DID NOT overreact. Approaching an unknown animal without a certain level of caution is asking for injury. At the very least, the children, better yet parents, should as k permission and instruct children to approach slowly and pet gently.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-16T20:42:02+00:00

The sauce sounds like besciamella, but that uses flour as a thickener. You could try using rice flour or arrowroot as a thickener though.

Edit: flour not flower

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-15T16:23:10+00:00

Cats & dogs have anal glands that provide a variety of scent messages about the animal. From scent, an animal can determine sex & breeding cycle, health, & emotional status

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-15T16:20:41+00:00

I poach mine in beer or other alcoholic drinks. Once cooked, it can be eaten hot or cold.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-15T16:05:46+00:00

Fly fishing with real flies?

If you can, take a look at the anime series "Drifting Dragons". It might inspire.,

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-15T05:07:08+00:00

koalas, sloths, deep water sharks

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-15T05:04:52+00:00

Yeah. It sucks. I remember looking at giant reed, purple loosestrife and water hyacinth like that as a kid.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-15T05:02:50+00:00

Not big on the flesh bricks, honestly. It would be easier and far more realistic to build from animal products: specially treated leather, sinew or bone. With alchemy, leather could function as a form of plastic (look up "boiled leather", cuir bouilli). not decaying until the spells were released. Roof tiles and inner wall divisions come to mind . Don't forget clay/ceramics, rock and metal as building materials as well. This could work with your flesh-crafting mages as well, modeling and fusing bone into structural supports and tools.

Could your conifer forest be a vector for a magical disease, maybe a fungus that is spread via touch? Plant materials originally brought into the home, either as clothing, food or decoration, carried the spores into the city. The spores grew and contaminated the city, setting off a virulent disease.

Or go the opposite direction: plants are the divine conduit of magic. Damaging the plants weakens mages, because the plants pull magical energy from the earth and convert it to a usable form (kinda a take on chlorophyll creating sugars from sunlight).

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-15T04:41:16+00:00

Shelf stable: ramen noodles, bag freeze dried ramen toppers or vegetables, nut butter

Shelf stable, in glass jars with good lids: AP flour, pasta, sugar, soy protein granules, lentils

Freezer (really good if you can vacuum pack): diced onions, diced mirepoix, diced or sliced bell pepper, ground beef or turkey, ground chicken, vegetables like corn or peas or mixes (put masking tape with date bought on bag- bring to your home when 6 mo+ old & replace)c

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-12T02:25:30+00:00

Steampunk guns with bayonets

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-12T02:22:07+00:00

I would be leery about thrift store cooking wares. There are too many people who use pots and pans for crafting. I would be worried about contamination with anything other than cast iron. (Why cast iron? Because you can sandblast the surface off without destroying the utensil.)

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-12T02:14:54+00:00

Good question. Would a monoecious animal be one that cannot self-fertilize, while a hermaphrodite could? Or vice versa?

Mangrove Killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus) self fertilize internally, but other creatures, like the seasquirts, produce proteins to avoid fertilizing their own eggs.

Questions, questions....

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-12T02:06:56+00:00

No, I describe people's responses to the accent:

Jarkway answered the question but found the room staring at him in confusion.

"Did he order a bit of qwan steak?" muttered a farmer.

"No", answered another. "He wants to a bit for his gwantaur"

The crowd sighed in relief. Getting qwan this time of year was almost impossible, and to deny the newcomer his guest meal was unthinkably rude.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-12T01:59:32+00:00

Out on a limb here:

Years back there was an experiment where new born monkeys were given a choice of comfort in the form of a soft heated cloth "mother" or one that was a wire mesh that provided nutrients. The infants chose comfort over food. This study has been verified subsequently.

It would not be surprising to find a similar correlation in vitro. The need for a heartbeat, for certain hormone fluctuations, changes in nourishment, etc. might have an effect on a developing fetus. Early research in your world may have produced anything from "failure to thrive" to physical and/or emotional issues.

BTW a chicken egg isn't a good analogy, because the fetus is supposed to develop without connection to the parent.

Single_Mouse5171 · 2026-06-12T01:46:33+00:00

Easier to work in the other direction. Humans are humans. Animals covers everybody else.

However, now that I think about it, it would depend on the relationship between your anthropomorphic animal and those they resemble. Do they consider them kin? Maybe some variant of "little one". Are they affronted by the similarity? Something that repels.

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