Ah, I see. Completely misunderstood you. Thought you were saying 'humans' originate from the Rift Valley again.That's what I said, even if Greenland might be warmer, it'd still be very cold compared to the actual Rift Valley - explaining some of the Neanderthal resemblance.
The "devolved" humans might be the descendants of post-apocalyptic feral children, who knows.
beria and the Bering Straits. But not all Mediterranean climates are cradles of civilizations after all. Take California for example.
Indeed. And not all cultures originate in Mediterranean climates. Perhaps in ancient history, the *Homo Dryadensis are sort of like the Celts or Germans to the human empires of the south?
Yeah they're one of the groups i'm considering adding. May be the only other one than Homo Sapiens tbh
I'm thinking perhaps you could include a few other 'human species'. We could have *dwarves in the mountains and perhaps large burly *ogres living in the plains and *giants in the northern Arctic. All these humans species have less intelligence than *homo sapiens but have their own quirks. The dwarves could be goat herders and eventually miners in the mountains and are subjugated by homo sapiens who use them as slaves in the mines. Eventually, they are driven to the brink of extinction except for a few mountain ranges. The ogres could be a large but dumb race. However, they are intelligent enough to be raiders in the plains and they also enslave dwarves to forge weapons for them. Now what would be cool I think is if they had mounts. I think powerful nomadic armies that make OTL nomads look weak constantly conquering *homo sapien realms with them constantly breaking down due to a lack of administrative capabilities. The giants, meanwhile, are just a race of large humans who are pretty dumb and just wander the *Arctic building very primitive structures and they are slowly being hunted down by *homo sapiens who are adventuring north into the Arctic. TTL equivalent to Inuits.
They will most probably depict us the way they look. Look at how we depict our pagan gods; they represent their followers. Even Christ looks different based on which people are worshipping him.
Sure, always glad to get advice on that front. As you suggested I'm mainly doing it based on Artifexian's method and while most of the linear sections that are extremely clean cut obviously will be amended it does look a tad like those coloured sand jars you can make with varying thick levels on top of one another and not much variety
An Interesting idea, but I think that the humans would have evolved to life on whatever planet they colonized, or to life in microgravity. Perhaps they exist as a separate species, perhaps monitoring the development of the humans on earth for scientific reasons?
The scientific observation could be done. Humanity existing in space habitats wouldn't have to change one bit since technology would allow for a replication of Earth conditions. Even if they change, a new species could be created to be sent to Earth which allows for some cool stuff like new natural hair, eye colours etc. So purple eyes could be naturally occurring for example and as common as blue/green eyes.
A second little teaser
Still lots to add but things are starting to fill out. Looks like civilization will mostly start to emerge and flourish in the yellow southern region there.
