dymaxion worldmaps
representing all of
earth's history
with the poles
fixed
as two separate vertical lines
an equator halfway between
ocean temperatures generally
increasing towards the equator
and slowly drifting continents
breaking up and merging
(maybe three such cycles
in the last 3 billion years?)
forming a system of
irregular columns
on our 3D (actually 4D) map
climate and terrain roughly divide
these irregular columns
into dozens of
standard biomes
supporting characteristic ecologies
each biome gradually drifting
growing/shrinking
splitting/merging
each species
tending to track one biome
to fill one sub-biome
species that master
a second biome
tending to split
into a second species
(ancestral species rank-able
by the number of biomes
eventually colonised)
rarely merging biomes
forcing clashes-to-the-death
between more-or-less-distant
cousins
humans uniquely, continually
refining their toolkits
for colonising hostile biomes
.
