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[Dermain]

This is totally a bait thread. Even so, I'll play along.

 

I doubt Bioware ever gave much thought to the evolutionary history of any of its alien species (why would they?), but the Asari having evolved from a species that had two sexes and reproduced sexually is the only thing that would make sense, given their compatibility with males of other species.

 

They also would have evolved as land-based persistence hunters chasing down prey on open savanna, much like our ancestors did. Otherwise they wouldn't be built exactly like us. We tend to think of our own species as being physically weak compared to other apex predators like lions or brown bears, but humans are actually perfectly designed by nature to chase down game over long distances. We might lack claws or fangs or the muscle mass of some other predators, but very few animals can match humans for sheer physical endurance. The Asari sharing the same physical traits points to a similar evolutionary history and their ancestors filling a similar ecological niche.

 

Human Mammal, Human Hunter

 

The science of running

 

/nerdrant

 

It's a Queen Skadi thread, that should have been apparent without even clicking on it.

[Silcron]

Skadi, Skadi, Skadi. You forgot to mention that they can conciously choose if they want to get pregnant or not and I'd imagine that between two asari even choose whose going to get pregnant.

I'm dissapointed.

[DanishViking]

Yes they use to be human but then 

this movie came out avatar 

and we all turned blue 

[FlyingSquirrel]

Would be cool if a futuristic wonder like Illium was creates but with less murder.

 

One thing I wouldn't mind carrying over from DA:I would be a place like Skyhold, i.e. a fairly large environment that serves as an "HQ" for the player-character and allies that's just for dialogue scenes and commerce as opposed to combat missions, conspiracies, or other forms of trouble. An ark ship would probably have to be bigger than the Normandy, so maybe the ship itself could play that role.

[Han Shot First]

Navasha: No. Evolution does not work that fast. It especially does not work that fast in a species that lives for hundreds of years. The Prothean Meddling was a mere fifty thousand years before the time of Mass Effect. At best, the Protheans are responsible for the Ardat-Yakshi syndrome and biotics that are useful to the asari without an amp. Protheans are not and *cannot* be responsible for parthenogenesis, the existence of natural biotics, or the state of the asari as an all-female race.

 

 

I mostly agree with this.

 

The Protheans only made contact with the Asari about 50,000 years before the start of the Shepard trilogy, which is yesterday in geologic/evolutionary terms. Even anatomically modern humans, which are probably a much younger species than the Asari, have been around for about 200,000 years.

 

Thessia is also the most eezo rich planet known in the galaxy, with most of its animal life being said to have evolved either biotic ability or resistance to eezo in response to it being so widespread in the natural enviroment.

 

At best the Protheans gave Asari civilization a jump start and maybe boosted a natural talent for biotics. They couldn't be responsible for the evolution of the Asari species and it is very unlikely, given what we know about Thessia, that they were responsible for making them biotics.