My tinkering with that site had come up with a 20 km rock, but yeah. *double checks* Huh. Maybe I mis-entered something, that first time.
Anyway, I figure that the ancestors of the 'civilised' states would've filtered back into the area, rather than living there since before the Jewel impact.
The kind of explosive radiation you'd get in the wake of that would, I think, likely include some strains undergoing a drasic size increase... the hominids of the day might've been small enough for their language-using descendants to drop-kick without trouble. Or they might've been tool-using already, and that could prove a factor. Or, or, or... Look! A Creationist! *points, then starts to sneak away*
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
Anyway, I figure that the ancestors of the 'civilised' states would've filtered back into the area, rather than living there since before the Jewel impact.
Quote:*blinkblink* Including sea life? And, directly killed or just starved out with the dust cloud?
You're right on the omnivore/carrion eater hypothesis for humans precursors to survive - after the end of the Cretaceous, minimal to no purely vegetarian or carnivorous animals appeared to have survived. Unfortunately, the Cretaceous impact killed pretty much everything larger than a housecat/small dog planetwide.
The kind of explosive radiation you'd get in the wake of that would, I think, likely include some strains undergoing a drasic size increase... the hominids of the day might've been small enough for their language-using descendants to drop-kick without trouble. Or they might've been tool-using already, and that could prove a factor. Or, or, or... Look! A Creationist! *points, then starts to sneak away*
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"