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*Does the Daodan really mean “sped-up evolution” as a whole, or just improved defenses? Can it activate junk DNA to restore lost features from progenitor life forms? | *Does the Daodan really mean “sped-up evolution” as a whole, or just improved defenses? Can it activate junk DNA to restore lost features from progenitor life forms? | ||
*Could the Daodan be from a rogue planet (which are said to outnumber orbiting planets), or a round-trip comet? | *Could the Daodan be from a rogue planet (which are said to outnumber orbiting planets), or a round-trip comet? | ||
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*The Wilderness might spread using fungi as the pioneer organism, as apparently happened with land life on Earth. See mycorrhizal networks (which would also allow me to work in something of Paradox’s ideas). | *The Wilderness might spread using fungi as the pioneer organism, as apparently happened with land life on Earth. See mycorrhizal networks (which would also allow me to work in something of Paradox’s ideas). | ||
*Is the Wilderness creeping in by not just trophic level but by the ecological concept of [[wp:Ecological_succession|succession]]? | |||
*What will happen to upper trophic levels if the lowest trophic level is being replaced? Is it the opposite of a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvKCTZf_-e4 trophic cascade]? | |||
*Would neo-Agriculture around the world lead to neo-[[wp:Center_of_origin|Vavilov Centers]]? | |||
*Competition in the Wilderness might lead to weird patterns of life like [https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/all-over-the-globe-plants-are-growing-into-strange-circular-patterns/ fairy circles]. | *Competition in the Wilderness might lead to weird patterns of life like [https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/all-over-the-globe-plants-are-growing-into-strange-circular-patterns/ fairy circles]. | ||
*The initial influx of Daodan-boosted life into a region might result in strange temporary anomalies, e.g. super-termites which can easily consume live trees might totally denude a forest, only for Daodan-powered plants or fungi to spring up haphazardly in larger than usual numbers before they can be replaced by other parts of the Daodan ecosystem. These unsettled local regions could make more interesting settings. | |||
==Neo-Agriculture== | ==Neo-Agriculture== | ||