LIFECYCLES
To/From: kpendleton@cascade.internal.gate, imanbanko@cascade.internal.gate
Okay, I'm certain: 184 is the final stage of the life cycle. It starts as 171, which metamorphizes into the little hoppers. That then gestates in those hyper-elastic pupal pods I showed you... Or sleeps in them? I don't know yet. Anyway, then it emerges as 178, then grows into the adult, for lack of a better word. It just happens a lot faster here than it does in A2, as we're seeing.
I get that. But even so, doesn't it seem a little too perfect? I've been thinking about it. There's some really weird cellular architecture, like the favorable binucleation. Extremely hard to imagine how this would have occurred naturally in such a stable form.
It's complicated, but so are we. Their evolution must be selecting for a variable we haven't considered yet.