Talk:Blood Kelp Zone/@comment-27538855-20160312155825/@comment-45.48.63.254-20170420161513

One of the primary assets for storytelling Unknown Worlds Entertainment seems to employ in Subnautica (and their other games) is the theory of darwinian evolution, the most popular scientific theory used to explain the diversity of life on Earth IRL. I mean, one of their other games is called "Natural Selection", named after the process by which animals evolve to survive their environmental pressures. The fact that certain creatures throughout the game look strikingly similar in structure does not mean that the precursors or any other entity facilitated this phenomenon. It is far more likely that these similar species diverged evolutionarily as a result of separating populations. In-game, it is pointed out that the Crimson Ray, Ghost Ray, Jelly Ray, and Rabbit Ray all share poisonous flesh, a trait that compensates for their rather vulnerable bodies and slow movement. Perhaps millions of years ago, only the Rabbit Ray existed and as their populations grew and migrated, these offshooting populations changed gradually to fit their changing environmental pressures; As the Ray migrated deeper toward the ILZ, it became the Crimson Ray, etc. Maybe some ancestor of all these Ray species existed but was wiped out by the Carar. Bear in mind that all this takes place over millions of years.

The point is that similar species corroborates the natural changing of life on 4546B, not the influence of the precursors (or any other third party). But good observation!