4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

This is an evolving creature.

Lin's sounders dragged a creeping creature from the water and observed it carefully.

This creature is about two meters long. It could easily kill a sounder in the water just now, but then Lin let more sounders rush into the water to kill the creature more easily.

Although this creature resembles a reptile, its neck is relatively long, and the bones on its hands and feet start to come together. This structure seems to be suitable for living in water. Lin thinks that it was originally living on land, and then plans to return to water.

In fact, this evolutionary creature is more common, but Lin also found something more interesting in this lake.

This was when a crawler attacked. The sounder detected some special traces with his voice, and they were carved on the rock at the bottom of the lake. Lin knew that the Inca swarm liked to get this kind of thing. It should be a channel or something.

The sounders jumped into the water again, and Lin lit up this time, and found that it was a circular score more than two meters in diameter carved on the bottom of the lake.

The sounders pulled their claws into the crack of the notch and pulled it hard. Sure enough, there was a sound of "Gurron ...", and the whole circular notch slowly moved to the side, revealing a spacious rear Channel.

After entering this passage, Lin found that the seawater here became clean, only the previous lake was turbid, and there are some older marine organisms, such as trilobites, flat fish, etc., seemingly because there is no light for a long time. The relationship between them, part of their eyes degenerate, but other perceptual abilities like smell are very developed, and Lin fled away as soon as she approached.

Other creatures like this very much, and will degenerate useless organs. Lynn never does this kind of thing. Who knows that even if it is useless now, will it be useful in the future?

The Sounder Door swam about 100 meters in the passage, and found that the passage began to bend upwards. After passing this bend, Lin reached a spacious space again.

The Inca Swarm so much like to make an open space across the road?Why don't you all gather together?

But this space ... is very special.

The whole space is square, about 50 meters in width, about the same height, and full of seawater. There are many strange things in this place.

Sound detectors use sound to detect the shape of these things. They have different shapes, large and small. This is an object that the Inca swarm is very good at making-a statue.

Do they also save cells here?However, Lin believes that it is not a good environment in the sea, they may corrode the statues.

The statues are neatly arranged row by row, unlike the home trees where they are piled together, as if they were purposely arranged.

Lynn ’s sounder approached the statue closest to the entrance. It was a worm-shaped mere one meter long. The whole statue was filled with cracks and decay. There were still several snail creatures crawling on it. It's been a long time.

Lynn noticed that the worm seemed ... quite primitive.

Although worms are very common, they are actually very special creatures. They are the evolutionary predecessors of almost all arthropods and spines. The ancestral multicellular organisms shared by arthropods and reptiles are usually in the form of worms, and then slowly Slowly develop into other forms.

This worm statue is like a kind of worm before evolution. It is primitive and ancient. It only has a long body and feeds on phagocytic bacteria. Does the Inca swarm have cells of this worm?

Lin made a small hole in this statue and explored it, but she didn't find any cell storage room in it, just a pure statue.

Then Lin looked at the second statue next to the worm. What is this thing about?What Lin saw was a ">" shape, which was also standing on the ground deliberately, with the tip of ">" pointing to the next statue.

The next statue is still a worm, but there is a circle of fangs in the mouth, and there is a hardened structure on the body, like a predator.

Then the next one, again is a statue with a “” shape.

What are they doing so strangely?What on earth do statues like the Inca Swarm want to illustrate?

Then Lin looked down, it was another worm statue, but this one was bigger than before, and the various structures on her body had become more.

Is it ...

Lin suddenly thought of a possibility. Is the Inca Swarm using statues to illustrate the evolutionary path of these worms?

This is indeed possible. The Inca swarms have also placed fossils in this way. They may record these situations, but how do they record the evolution of a species?That seems to take quite a long time.

Lin doesn't know how long the Inca swarm has been in history, but judging only from the visceral structure and cell breakdown of its various arms, it probably won't exceed tens of thousands of years.

Of course, it is not that they did not exist tens of thousands of years ago, but intellectual problems.

Regarding intelligence, Lin also has a lot of research. In general, the intelligence of a creature can only let it solve basic living conditions. In fact, for example, thinking about how to use a stone as a nest, thinking about how to find food, and so on.

At this stage, only those things that have a direct interest in itself appear in the creature ’s brain. For example, if a creature sees a rock, it will only want to use it as a nest, or ignore it, but as the brain ’s capacity increases, a Creatures will have various doubts about objects, which will further promote the evolution of the brain.

For example, where did this stone come from?Why is it there?Why is it different from the surrounding objects?After many kinds of doubts, they will begin to doubt the surrounding environment and try to use their brains to understand their existence and sources and other information.

Although this kind of thinking seems to be a lot, it can greatly promote the evolution of the brain. At present, Lin only finds that this is the case with divisional creatures, because their brains have a lot of idle time, unlike other creatures Not so much time.

Lin placed quite a lot of eyeballs in the twisted jungle. She has been continually observing and studying the situation of environmental creatures. Lin found that some creatures will have this situation.

Lin has studied the brains of various Inca swarms, and their basic proportions are all around 1%, which may have evolved 100,000 years ago, but this is only speculation.

But perhaps by observing these statues, you can know the history of the Inca Swarm ...

Lin continued to observe the statues of the Inca Swarm. They were really expressing the evolutionary relationship. Each statue had a “>” shape to point to the next evolutionary worm statue.

At the same time, Lin also noticed that these statues have been placed for a long time, but the ">" is new, as if they were placed as soon as they were made.

Looking down the order of the statues, the original fungus-eating worms grew bigger and bigger, its teeth grew, armor appeared, and there were a lot of barbs on its body, and even one of the statues was cut into one. In half, the Inca swarm made detailed internal organs in half of the body.

It seems that their research is even as detailed as Lynn.

When Lin kept seeing the 30th statue, she found that the two worms were entangled. Lin guessed that the Inca swarm meant: sex.

At this stage, they have evolved to look like sex, but they can't see how long it took.

Lin looked at a total of ninety statues, each of which was larger than the previous one, and the degree of evolution was also higher, but by ninety-one, it was found that the statue was another arthropod, while the worm was lying On this creature.

It seems to be a parasitic relationship. It turns out that worms did not evolve into predators, but evolved into parasites?

The next statue shows that the worm has penetrated into this organism. Because of the detailed visceral structure, Lin saw the worm drill into the part of the creature's brain, and then parasitized there and slowly swallowed the brain.

The next statues are very peculiar. Each statue shows that the worms eat the creature's brain bit by bit, and use its own body to integrate into the brain.

It can be seen that the worm seems to connect itself to the brain, and some are like Lin's brain reader.

However, when the worm slowly penetrated into the brain, Lin discovered that the creature's body structure was also changing. It had grown more claws and arthropods, and the whole body became very strange.

In the end, the creature died, but the worm got out and went on to search for other parasites.

Some of the following parasitic organisms did not die, and their limbs were not so deformed. The parasite seemed to use this creature to obtain nutrients for itself.

After the statue, there are many in the same position, this is the Inca swarm expressing that all the parasitic creatures have gathered together, forming a special social lifestyle.

Every parasitic creature is different, they are responsible for a variety of things, such as part of combat, part of reproduction, etc., the basic mode of division of living creatures has emerged.

The reproductive organs of these creatures can still function, but they can only produce worms, and the worms parasitize more creatures to join the group.

But in the end, these parasitic individuals slowly evolved and mutated, and finally became completely different from the parasitic creatures. The worms parasitic in the brain are no longer worms. They directly transformed themselves into worms. A brain was completely replaced by the original one.

Here, Lin saw some familiar arms of the Inca Swarm, such as the Black Bee and Blast Armor.

And they no longer produce parasitic worms. Instead, they hand over breeding tasks to queen-like characters. The queen comes from a productive species, and it can directly produce a variety of arms instead of worms. , They use their hosts to combine together and become a brand new species ...

At the beginning, Lin thought that the Inca swarm was recording the evolution of other creatures. It turned out that this was the evolutionary history of the Inca swarm?And they actually come from a parasitic worm?Although the details are not very clear.