>>5423065The Stomper has further grown and increased the complexity of its brain. This was too far, too fast, as the cancer rate surges and outweighs the benefits of a slightly increased intelligence. Much like the Flounder Feeder’s distant ancestors, the brain has become a vestigial nutrient-sink in most of the older Stomper population. Their fast metabolism and external, melanin-centric method of preventing cancer don’t help calm the situation. The Stomper population decreases alongside the Flounder Feeders, giving the fragile narrow band ecosystem some room to recover.
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