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So in spider society being male is a skill issue

29:29 God covid would fuck them up something fierce

10:14 Ah yes...eight. A definitely natural number for a human to choose and not at all arbitrary like, I don't know, five.

11:46 How come the islands (besides Pyronesia) weren’t initially populated by their own invasions of land? They were around in the time period covered in part 4 Quote at 11:46 : "None of the mainland clades will have had any presence on these landmasses, since they evolved after these islands were already separated, so everything that comes to live there will have had to disperse there from elsewhere"

my language Wo-Re-Ke-Ro-No or mud-writing is just as it says, the language writes in sand but.\ and just a thought but what if there was place where people could make a community language

Would there be some sort of huge taboo towards the females that wanted to be male, since males can naturally transition into females but not the other way aroungd?

Transfem aliens real!!!

Hmm... on one hand, I'm saddened by the loss of so many species that I've had the pleasure of watching evolve and thrive. On the other, I am horrified by some of the new species. On the third hand, new opportunities abound.

I think it's important to talk about one specific idea that was suggested in this video, around 1:31:04. racism is NOT natural, at least for the modern understanding of "racism". racism is not mere ethnically motivated prejudice, racism is a huge social structure that was very much invented by, and is maintained by, a select group of people for economic reasons. it exists as a way to divide people and target a specific group that can be exploited for profit without huge backlash. racism towards black people in particular was invented because slave owners needed to find a reason to explain to the general public that what they were doing was moral and not insanely evil, since slavery was so profitable. yes, that's right, racism came after slavery. today, racism is used primarily to justify inequality and distract people from real issues with real culprits. medieval and older societies didn't have the concept of racism. people might have been afraid of the unknown and a few would mistreat others based on skin color, but most of them were actually really curious and would love to hear the stories from foreigners' lands, since that would be entirely new to them. if anything, historical and current evidence shows that humans have a very natural tendency to cooperate, and empathy towards even those who look different is a big part of that.

How do you design these creatures? Like what program?

I desperately need a baby amphidont plushy right now.

Hey man love your videos, though I would say that in the in group vs out group section with the images of people protesting, Co2 is what trees need to breath, so that example of people who are pro Co2 is kind of redundant.

The art here is absolutely phenomenal! The community is doing good work

1:14:55 until they invent genetic Engineering.

I wish you'd put your language's version of the modifying things you used when you gave them in English like "finish" because when you presented your modified sentences I couldn't tell what you'd actually done. Same with stuff like 'cause'. All in all this was incredibly confusing.

Looking at history, being the first culture to "advance" past xenophobia usually lead them to extinction at the hands of a culture that didn't. Just ask the neanderthals.

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Just discovered this channel. Will now spend hours listening to it 😃

I WANNA SEE NEOTECTONS DOMESTICATING APODOMORPHS AND BRACHYCELIDONS INTO PETS

I have the theory that classic grey aliens arent actually aliens, but humans of some lost but advanced human civilization that at one point left earth and adapted to zero g. Kind of like the asteromorphs. That would at least explain why every supposed ufo encounter where one of them was tested mentions they have nearly human dna.

Bravo, bravo, what a series!

Binging this series and it's absolutely amazing - It's like a perfect combination of entertainment and learning! Not to mention all the spectacular art, making everything come alive. Seeing these creatures in motion brings in the believability and it really feels like I'm seeing something that exists somewhere, alien yet familiar.

I have tetrachromia. It's interesting when you can see colors other people can't. They don't realize their clothes don't match lol

1:10:08 Does anybody else see a pareidolia face on the side of the subject's head, where their resonating organ is?

this is why I came to CZcams 15 years ago <3

Huh, do you think domestication should count as a form of parasitism?

The image of schmoozing spider aliens is something i did not need, but definitely do deserve XD

Someone must write a fanfiction about this!

Not me patiently waiting for them to become cute

In my conlang i havent even though about all these grammer and tense rules am i doing something wrong ?

I'd live to see an April fool's episode of this series in which you explain the bizarrely contrived environmental changes that lead one or more species to 'evolve' into being indistinguishable from humans, thereby 'completing' evolution on the planet.

Sulfur is an ingredient in gunpowder, right? What are the other ingredients? Could chemical explosions be utilized as an evolutionary strategy?

Watching this last episode I had to come to term with two things: The first is how different the Paleotectons are from us. I know it would be boring if the "final" sapient species was too humanoid. But the Paleotecton is not only not humanoid, but it also not the prettiest, cutest and not even the coolest species we saw in this planet. The arms near the face is actually quite nightmarish! But I guess they would think the same thing about me, if they were real. The second thing is how culturally similar to us they already are. Biblaridion acknowledges this isn't the only way their culture could have developed, but maybe just like our anthropocentric biases makes us expect for sapient species to be more humanoid, Biblaridion's own anthropocentric biases made him speculate a culture much like human culture. Of course this is a very early stage of cultural development and most of their behavior in this episode is explained based on biology and not psychology. But the fact their biology is leading them to conflicts, racism and a overall violent behavior much like our own, makes me sad. I guess deep down I was hoping this series to show us a planet where evolution selected the biological and behavioral features I think are the best humans have to offer, but I'm not at all disappointed or surprised it didn't. Definetly one of the best things I ever watched on CZcams, excited for what comes next.

This series needs merch

a couple ideas for your next series, you have figured out a way to design there auditory production structures, the ones on the side of the head, if you figure out the range of sounds it produces, then you can create a phonetic alphabet, and create a basic proto-language, you could then evolve it to create 5 distinct languages, and assign them to 5 different cultures across the world, from there, you can use those 5 cultures in all future episodes to explore different aspects of civilization, and use it to distinguish out how different cultures would view different aspects of culture, such as architecture, religion, agriculture, etc.

Yall think neotechs would enslave the other species that spark up? That is, if those neotechs even make it far along enough

do female neotectons not make art? that seems so bleak :( and, like, if neotecton art evolved from mating displays made by males only, and neotecton intelligence developed in part because of the art, is there an implication that females are less intelligent? :/ how much dimorphism is there between individuals typified as belonging to different sexes? if there is significant dimorphism, i'm not saying it would be unrealistic or wrong. neotectons are not humans. BUT, their society as described brings up uncomfortable human social/cultural questions and baggage. i can easily imagine someone making a misogynist, incel-power-fantasy sort of story where the ~intellectual, artistic males~ revolt and overthrow the ~evil, stupid, only-good-for-breeding females~. obviously if neotectons were real they wouldn't have the same gender prejudices as humans, and their stories wouldn't have the same implications. but, humans are the ones interacting with this story, not neotectons, so i think we need to be careful about the choices we make in telling their stories and keep our real world in mind.

57:06 jumpscare jesus

I just spent like an hour an half binge watching a series about conlangs while building a house in Minecraft at 1 am instead of getting sleep or studying I love my life