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"COLOE: An Illustrated Encyclopedia explaining the worldbuilding origins of the Natureverse series"
A Graphic Novel Compendium of Evolution, Worlds, and Beasts That Might Talk and Civilized...
Chronicles of Life on Earth (COLOE) is a lavishly illustrated, scientifically grounded graphic-novel encyclopedia chronicling the deep evolutionary origins of an alternate Earth-one where no lineage ever produced humans, yet life marched through familiar epochs shaped by supernovae, drifting continents, mass extinctions, ice ages, and the long patience of natural selection. Across these pages, the reader witnesses a scenario "what if" ordinary animals from the dawn of time, under extraordinary evolutionary pressures, diverge into a spectrum of sapient, culturally rich, anatomically plausible anthropomorphic species actually is a thing in biology, rather than a whimsical fairytale trope.
But here's a profound warning: this world would not culminate into a primate lineage evolves manipulative hands, binocular vision, and the neurological escalation that created us, not even by chance... for instead, the vacant niche of tool-making, cooperation, and symbolic culture would be practiced by clades slowly ascend.
Key Themes
Parallel Evolution (Without Humanity): An alternate scenario of Planet Earth of how sapience diversifies when no single species monopolizes culture.
Anthropomorphism as Anatomy, Not Fantasy: Each species' upright posture, hand-structure, and facial expressiveness are justified through plausible adaptive pathways.
Natural History Shaped by Biology: Competitions, mutualism, migrations, and cognitive along with technological breakthroughs are framed through ecological constraints and evolutionary inheritances.
Geology as Plot: Mass extinctions push certain clades toward radiation amd upgrades in cognition; climactic shifts accelerate creativity; interactions of creatures great and small births unexpected coperations.