After learning almost all of the White Skeleton Dragons' language and writing, Lin immediately found the stone slabs that the White Skeleton Dragons used to record their history. These stone slabs were placed in a corner of the room. Although the pillar in the corner looked inconspicuous, it recorded a lot of useful information …
Lin also found many other records that indicated that there were originally many different versions of the Skeleton Dragons' 'history', but after some integration, it finally formed the version that Lin had just seen.
The entire historical record was not very complicated, but it also explained what the Skeleton Dragons had experienced, and every experience was recorded in an era.
Lin found that this group of Skeleton Dragons had lived for at least two thousand years. Of course, these two thousand years were their 'years', which was calculated in terms of 1,060 days and nights in a year.
If the records of the Skeleton Dragons were true, then they had been developing for a long time since they knew how to record history.
And their birth was inseparably related to the 'creator' mentioned in their history.
Lin found that in addition to the historical record, there were many recording stone tablets about the creator. Most of them described things about the creator, and they were all stories that were imagined with thoughts. There were quite a lot of them, and Lin could confirm that they worshipped this creator very much.
In the minds of the Skeleton Dragons, this creator was omnipotent. It had incomparable power and could create life, could create everything...
This was a strange phenomenon. The way they worshipped was somewhat different from the Emerald Dragons and Skeleton Dragons. The Emerald Dragons worshipped many things. But none of the Emerald Dragons thought that they were created by something they worshipped. And the Skeleton Dragons did not think that the pom-poms created them. The Skeleton Dragons thought that the pom-poms guided their direction, their path, and their lives.
In the historical record, the Skeleton Dragons thought that they were molded by their creator with mud...
... This sounded very strange, but it also meant that the Skeleton Dragons did not remember what it was like in the beginning. It was only later on when they learned how to record that they began to imagine how they were born and how they appeared. This made them think that they were molded by their creator.
... Molded into a Skeleton Dragon from mud? This idea seemed unlikely, but many ingredients in the mud could be converted into nutrients for living creatures, so it could not be completely wrong...
In fact, Lin had also thought about this question. How did living creatures come into being? But at least it was not like what the White Skeleton Dragons said. It was still possible to create something out of mud, but later on, they said that the creator used rocks to create other creatures …
Generally speaking, these creatures didn't know about the existence of cells. They thought that a creature was a whole, not made up of many small things. They believed that a creature should look like this when it was born.
If he told a White Skeleton Dragon or an Emerald Dragon about cells, they might not believe him at all.
There was indeed no information about cells in their brains. They did not know that cells had undergone many complex evolutions to become like this.
Speaking of evolution, it was a very complicated matter. In fact, there were many different kinds of evolution. Now that Lin had integrated her research on biological history and evolution, Lin believed that there were three main types of evolution.
At the very beginning, the most primitive way of evolution was what Lin called 'completely random' evolution.
Every time a creature reproduced, including when it split, there was a possibility that some kind of change would occur in its body. If a certain creature had a change that was beneficial to its life, it would have more opportunities to reproduce, and slowly, it would eliminate other creatures of its kind. Over time, the creatures in the area would become creatures with this advantageous change.
This kind of evolution was very slow. Due to the randomness, they could not evolve quickly. They could only rely on the random change that would occur during the next reproduction. At the same time, they could not cope with sudden changes in the environment, etc.
To put it simply, this kind of evolution relied on coincidence and fate, and required a large population. If the population was too small, it might go extinct before a good ability was randomly produced.
If living creatures evolved completely in this way, it would be difficult for large arthropods to appear in hundreds of millions of years, let alone species with specialization or dinosaurs. No, it was hard to say if multicellular creatures would even be born.
Thus, another kind of creature was born. They had a more powerful way of evolution, which Lin called 'not completely random'.
It sounded similar to the name above … but this kind of creature evolved much faster.
This kind of 'not completely random' creature still relied on coincidence to evolve. At first, they needed coincidence. They had to encounter something by chance, such as a beetle. It accidentally had something explosive in its body, and then secreted this kind of liquid in its body.
At first, it might have injured itself, but it did not die. Then, it successfully healed the wound in its body. At the same time, the beetle also discovered that this kind of liquid could blow away predators.
Then, it succeeded. It continued to eat, and then secreted this kind of liquid in its body to resist predators. At the same time, its cells strengthened its internal organs to resist this kind of explosive without damaging them.
At this time, the beetle's cells would completely record this new ability, and its descendants would inherit this ability. Perhaps the initial ability was not very perfect, and it might have only relied on squirming to squeeze out the liquid. However, each of its descendants continued to use this ability and improved it. In the end, it even became a super cannon that could directly synthesize and explode in its body, and could even rotate 360 degrees!
To put it simply, as long as this kind of new evolutionary creature encountered a certain coincidence, and it found that the coincidence was beneficial to it, it would begin to adapt to the coincidence and produce changes in time. There was no need for it to reproduce, and the random changes would slowly stack up.
When this kind of creature reproduces sexually, its descendants would also have more abilities.
In fact, this kind of 'new evolutionary ability' of this kind of creature was also randomly produced at some point in time. They quickly replaced the slow, purely random creatures and became the dominant species. Most of the creatures Lin saw now, including various dinosaurs and skeletal dragons, were basically this kind of creature. Moreover, this kind of creature was not limited to animals, but also plants and even fungi. The era of purely random creatures was over.
Only in a few places could some very primitive, purely random fungus creatures be found.
However, because this kind of new evolutionary method relied on chance in the beginning, it was called 'not completely random' creatures.
As for the evolution of viruses … it was not easy to confirm what kind of evolution they were. Lin still had a relatively ancient virus that she did not know what kind of effect it would have on modern creatures.
Creatures that were not completely random did not break away from randomness. They would still produce random changes during reproduction. Occasionally, there would be some changes that were not good for the body. If a creature with such changes succeeded in reproduction, its offspring would inherit the same bad changes. This was called a 'genetic disease'.
Another thing that Lin discovered was that some emerald dragons, if they gave birth to their descendants in a very sad and melancholic situation, their descendants would also become quite melancholic.
But no matter what, their evolution speed had indeed increased by a lot.
However, even though this kind of creature evolved faster than purely random creatures, it was still considered slow. They could not achieve the rapid changes required for a division of labor species.
Thus, a third evolutionary method was born. This was a method that only the most powerful species — — division of labor species could use.
It was called 'controllable evolution'.
This was also the method that the headworms used to create new units. Although the units produced by the headworms were different, their larvae were exactly the same. Only when they reached adulthood would the difference be noticeable.
The larvae were highly variable. If the headworm wanted to create a new unit, it would need to change a larva.
The queen of the headworm secreted a special substance to control the growth of the larva. Usually, a larva would slowly 'metamorphose' into a foot soldier when it was about one meter long. However, the headworm could stop it from metamorphosing and then continuously feed the larva until it grew to an unusually large size.
Then, it would metamorphose and the headworm would have a giant foot soldier!
However, this was not the end of the story. If the foot soldier was directly enlarged, its carapace would not be suitable for its size and would cause it to collapse instantly.
The headworm needed to first affect the larva's carapace, such as strengthening its carapace, strengthening its muscles, etc.
However, this was not that simple. The headworm relied on the 'special substance' secreted by the queen to cause the larva to 'mutate'. However, the headworm itself did not know what kind of mutation it would become. It needed to wait for it to mature before it could observe.
Of course, this would result in some failed products. However, whenever there was something useful, the headworm would immediately record it down with the Recording Orb. Then, it would make further changes based on this foundation.
For example, a giant unit like the Earth Splitter was created by many headworms after a large number of modifications and enhancements.
Although it seemed complicated, the speed at which new units appeared was much faster than the previous two evolutionary methods.
However, the Inca bugs directly skipped this step. They directly 'stole' the results of other species' evolution. This caused their evolution speed to be incomparably fast.
However, no matter what kind of evolution method it was, Lin did not belong to their system. Lin's evolution method was vastly different from theirs.
Everything starts from small to complex, and this is something that will never change ….
However, where did the initial small come from? Floating astronomy.
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