Chapter 138: Convergent Evolution

According to the simulation and evolution of the life evolution simulator, starting from the Martian ancient sea 2.9 billion years ago, the Martian life evolution tree based on the Martian protobacteria is highly similar to the life evolution tree of the blue star.

On Mars, plants such as algae, mosses, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms will also evolve......

In terms of animals, they also evolved similar to coelenterates, nematozoa, rings, molluscs, arthropods, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals......

However, this resemblance is actually only similar in appearance, and its evolutionary process and biological details are actually very different.

In biology, this is called convergent evolution.

For example, fish and whales, although they look similar in appearance, are actually completely different in evolution, and the ancestors of whales have landed on land, so they evolved lungs.

Even if it returns to the ocean and re-evolves into a streamlined body similar to a fish in order to adapt to the environment, the internal structure of its body is actually completely different from that of a fish, it still breathes with its lungs, not its gills like a fish, and it does not have fish scales......

Another example is pterosaurs, birds and bats, in order to fly, they all evolved similar wings, and the appearance looks somewhat similar, but in fact, the evolution process and body functions are completely different, and the performance of the wings is also different.

The evolution of life on Mars, and the evolution of life on Blue Star, the emergence of a large number of similar organisms, is actually a kind of convergent evolution.

The same carbon-based life, the same origin in the oceans, and the planets have similar properties.

Under these three basic premises, the convergent evolution of life evolution may be an inevitability.

Only the size of a fish can survive most easily in the fluid ocean, only the size of a bird can fly in the atmosphere, and only the four-legged form can be stable and flexible on land.

Of course, there are certainly exceptions.

For example, in the evolution of life on Mars, a peculiar wheeled animal appeared......

After its ancestors crawled out of the ancient sea of Mars, they did not evolve into a four-legged state, but evolved into three wheels......

Because the wheels could not be in the rough terrain, they were confined to the plains and later became extinct due to environmental changes.

There is also a type of ship-type creatures that can inhale air, become hovercraft-like beings, and float on the surface of the sea to better devour algae on the surface of the sea, and when flying creatures appear, they become extinct......

To a certain extent, this also confirms the inevitability of convergent evolution, those strange creatures will become extinct because of inadaptability or major defects, and only these selected forms on the blue star are the final choice of nature......

At the same time, He Xiao also discovered that almost all the creatures that evolved on Mars have the ability to dehydrate and have a much longer lifespan than Blue Star.

This shows that Mars has a harsher and more extreme environment than Blue Star, and dehydration and longevity seem to be necessary conditions for evolution, without which life on Mars would not be able to continue.

Another point may be that because the gravitational pull of Mars is only one-third of that of Blue Star, the largest terrestrial life that Mars has evolved is much larger than that of Blue Star.

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He Xiao used the entry test to find the fossils of these creatures, most of which were more than 100 million readers, which shows that in the real history of Mars, these creatures did not exist and were not really evolved.

There are only a few low-level plants and animals, and the difficulty is less than 10 million readers.

This suggests that they may be real, or at least similar creatures have been present......

It can be seen that life did appear on Mars and evolved to a certain extent, but the progress of evolution was very low, only to the extent of mosses and nematomorphs on the blue star......

What He Xiao wants to do is to use the entry to change the history of Mars, "resurrect" these Martian creatures that have evolved, and use them as a basis to create a higher level of life on Mars.

In this way, on the one hand, it can give human beings a deeper understanding of the evolution of life, promote human biology and life science, and on the other hand, it can also provide great convenience for human colonization of Mars.

Since they are all carbon-based life, they all have amino acids and proteins, so they should be able to become food for Martian immigrants......

If several large animals evolve, it is not bad to be domesticated livestock, such as the wheel animal, if they are reborn, there is no need to build a car, and the wheel can be much more energy-efficient than four-legged.

It doesn't matter if the terrain is a problem, humans can build roads!

Even, intelligent beings are not out of the question, as long as they can be ensured that they do not threaten humans, it is okay to create them to help human immigrants......

And they can increase the number of readers!

The number of people on the Blue Star is limited, even if he modifies it with entries, the efficiency is still too low, after all, how many people are on the Blue Star, everyone has an idea, and secretly increasing it too much at one time will definitely arouse suspicion.

But if it is on Mars, it may be different, and the reproductive ability of Martian intelligent creatures can be set in the later stage, and if they have a strong reproductive ability, they can grow on a large scale in a short period of time......

They don't have to worry too much about their threat, as long as they don't have the ability to leave Mars.

I couldn't control it, and a bigger space rock smashed down, and it was over.

If one doesn't work, a few more......

Of course, this is only the most extreme case, under normal circumstances, He Xiao would not use the entry to do this kind of thing, and he is reluctant to destroy the world that he has finally created.

Just do it, He Xiao started his own Martian creation plan, and at the beginning, he must start with the easiest.

He edited a new entry:

【Martian Giant Moss Fossil】

"On January 16, 2030, the Duke 8 Mars rover on Hawk Island made another major discovery near the North Sea of Mars, according to the research and analysis of the Hawk Island Academy of Sciences, this is a moss-like Martian paleontological fossil, which has been frozen in the ice of the North Pole of Mars for a long time...... Because Martian life has the ability to 'hibernate', scientists at Hawk Island, believe it has the potential to be resurrected......"

This entry is actually a completely real entry, whether it is a text description or a picture, it is true.

Since the number of readers required is 0, the task is not triggered.

However, the discovery of this moss fossil is not a coincidence, but He Xiao used the specific latitude and longitude tested by the entry, and then personally controlled a Duke 8 Mars rover, and "accidentally" discovered it.