Metamorphosis, And Evolution

Metamorphosis, And Evolution go hand in hand with the changing of body shapes to suit an environment. This is why I choose the salamander as an evolutionary link as it can regrow body parts. The most important aspect of my idea is that the early life forms may have had a much higher metamorphic rate than creatures around today, which would lead to difficulties in finding a mate, plus high speed cancer, and so the metamorphic rate would drop off. Also the survivors around today still show signs that metamorphism can survive under the right circumstances. My ideal creature to start the evolutionary chain is a worm with high metamorphism, and the metamorphism is created by super granular convection by gravity flowing through a body then through the ground. So limbs flow into soil, and sand structures, and feet are like tree roots flowing into the area of least resistance. The worms therefore become unlike each other with various kinds of limbs, and fins.

Cancer would be what is left of our metamorphic instability, and maybe the brain takes advantage of metamorphism too.

Pincho Paxton