Talk:Humans
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I always felt 'chilly' when I read that Almeans have no philtrum. I would like to know what was the reason Zompist decided so :) Also, according to Wikipedia: 'The philtrum allows humans to express a much larger range of lip motions than would otherwise be possible, which enhances vocal and non-verbal communication'. So I guess that uesti are not that expressive? Exez 06:40, 16 January 2008 (PST)
I guess they'd look a little like Sasha dolls: http://www.sashadolluk.co.uk/26247.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*. ils 11:17, 16 January 2008
- It's a nod to biology: on a different planet, organisms would be put together differently. Don't worry too much about expressivity; the underlying facial musculature may not at all be the same as ours. As for what they look like, I do draw Almeans consistently without philtrums, but perhaps people take it as careless sketching. :) Zompist 11:06, 16 January 2008 (PST)
- I once used an alien species with no philtrum in a half-baked SF universe of mine. I did that because I wanted to have a kind of inverse version of the various facial rubber additions used for aliens in Sci-Fi TV. The idea was that, while the philtrum is usually seen as an indentation, you could see it as two small almost parallel ridges, too- and if you see it that way, don't these ridges look a bit like something a makeup artist on the set of a sci-fi show produced on a different planet might put on actors to make them look "alien"?--Raphael 03:17, 29 July 2008 (PDT)
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Races
Are these races equally (un)related? I thought they would belong to some kind of 'tree' (one race being a cousin to the other while some are more distant to others). Exez 01:58, 17 January 2008 (PST)
- They might, but we don't have the data to classify them (e.g. DNA). It's also complicated by the fact that the settlement of Almea has happened twice, due to the iliu-ktuvok wars.Zompist 10:15, 17 January 2008 (PST)
