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Creative Speculation

exboyfil

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1. Bilateral symmetry is easily to most successful animal form

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Mon May 10, 2021, 12:01 PM

May 2021

I have been working on a science fiction story in which a planet totally covered by oceans develop a technological race. Spiders and insects are able to produce silk. Shellfish are able to produce shells. I am considering a species that can make more sophisticated objects with biology.

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