@bigseb31213 The idea of a "biological taboo" is absolutely ridiculous, and GRRM has speaken extensively about what incest represents in his work, you can look this up
@shadowedcrab@SamDrawsMonster@OmniandSnazzy Both of these explanations break tha natural laws of the universe in such a way that magic is the only plausible answer. Evolution happens to populations, not singular individuals
@OctaviusGilmour@BorinkenMox@ReuelWilliams3 You're just describing the starting point of dog domestication. 2 million years ago humans also hadn't left Africa. Homo habilis was not hanging out with wolves lol
@OctaviusGilmour@BorinkenMox@ReuelWilliams3 Cattle are very famously excellent draft animals. There is like a billion people who consider it a grave sin to kill or harm them
@CroozlingCat@fanggenderr A weaker sexual dimorphism is literally one of the classyfying traits we use to determine whether or not an animal is more closely related to us than chimpanzees. There is objectively a much larger physical difference between a cow and a bull than a man and a woman
@JAlfredJuicebox The Targaryens practiced incest for thousands of years before the Doom, and they're not even the last ethnic Valyrians. There are a bunch of those in Essos, Lys in particular
@Gimply32@bornposting@ManuclearBomb The inspiration George has cited for the Targs are the Ptolemys, who were WAY more inbred than the Habsburgs without any issues. Cleopatra was more inbred than Carlos II, maybe even almost twice as much depending on who her mom was for example
@bornposting Asoiaf is trying to portray a coherent, realistic medieval world, so critiquing it when it fails to do this is fair. People famously ridiculed the show when a starbucks mug appeared in a scene, pointing out other unrealistic stuff is not any different from that
@Anansis_Library@Urart3 Big cats are the only fully terrestrial predators that not only routinely prey on humans but also incorporate us as a regular part of their diet. The idea that they only do so when sick or injured is false, especially in the case of lions
@TomBFlanagan Wild seeing pre-historical warfare and classical states in the same sentence despite these two periods being like 2500 years apart. There is less time between Jesus and machine guns than pre-history and the Roman republic
@raptor_chatter Am I crazy or are the majority of the animals Colossal aim to recreate not recently extinct and well understood? The thylacine even went extinct more recently than the Carolina parakeet. There is also the small detail that cloning birds isn't a thing we're currently capable of