>>30340877chimeras imply a combination of different strands of dna. this counts as speculative biology, which i said we can always have more of, but an interesting thing i was thinking about was how, due to the recently "discovered" artificial glyphs, /meat/ chuubanite, in addition to encouraging healing and evolution in general, can be made to accelerate the pace of the life cycle of organic material in a human-controlled way. initially, large-scale chimeras like those seen in greek myths would be unlikely, but now we could force species to evolve in ways we want them to.
basically, we have fev. we can't control how the things evolve specifically, but we can control what parts evolve, and under what environments. we can heal them, too, so if they were in an environment that they wouldn't naturally survive in until a certain amount of time to evolve to those conditions, we could force it to survive and evolve. this can be applied at any scale, but i'll just quickly point out the fact that we could easily make a super-pathogen if we wanted.
i am imagining a petri dish made of chuubanite with a sophisticated, artificial glyph on it. we could isolate the desired living organism with glyphs, but that would require us to know about whatever it was we were interacting with and find a glyph to represent it. from there, we would benefit from knowing what culture to put it in to encourage a specific type of evolution. we don't need to be able to isolate anything since we want it to evolve to whatever condition it is in, but the more we can isolate things and control the culture we put it in, the more control we would have over it's evolution.
as for larger organisms, we could possibly make glyphs that force the body to accept foreign limbs, and with this we could create patchwork "chimera"-like abominations of our own in the style most imagine it, among many other things. this would not create it's own species quite yet, but interestingly enough, with these two basic suggestions, we could make that final leap if we wanted.
by creating an artificial glyph for one of these patchwork abominations, and then taking some eggs, seeds, or perhaps stem cells of all related species, we could potentially force the dna to accept each other, and change in a way that would produce something increasingly similar to the aforementioned patchwork abomination. this is just one option we could use, think of the possibilities we could have when we start mixing machinery and other kinds of technology into the evolution of something, someone talked about what a future between /meat/ and /inf/ would look like. may i recommend you an interesting thread from gc to help you a bit with that mental image.
https://boards.guro.cx/f/koko.php?res=60151with this being said, i don't think natural chimeras would ever be actually chimeric. they would be one organism that looks similar to another. speculative biology is natural, you need to explain how it came into being. luckily, half of that is answered for us. /meat/ chuubanite encourages genetic change, even more than any other chuubanite, because the ability is, in it's most basic form, to accelerate the pace of the life cycle in organic material. birth, suffering, death, rebirth. this is what allows /meat/ to regenerate, and /meat/ spreads it's chuubanite down it's largest river to come into contact with the greatest number of organisms, to become part of the greater ecosystem.
you can think of any kind of unique species you want for /meat/. how it evolved is simple, /meat/ chuubanite allowed it to evolve like that. it's not just the speed of evolution that would have already happened, this decreases the jump it would take to evolve into more complex organisms before those developments would have a chance to withstand natural selection, though it would also force a stronger natural selection even if the diversity of organisms wasn't already a strong enough form of natural selection.
evolution is just the life cycle on the scale of species. mutation (birth and rebirth) and natural selection (suffering and death) are both accelerated with our chuubanite, and even though natural selection plays a larger role in diversification than some might think, you don't need to focus on anything but how it is able to survive. the wasps i made use /meat/ chuubanite to keep their hosts alive, use our magic system to branch out of what might otherwise be possible and enter the realm of imagination.
pic rel is a rudimentary, real life equivalent. who knows what they could look like if someone with more advanced knowledge, and access to a magic system such as ours wanted to do this. also, if you see the other comments i made, please ignore them. i kept realizing i did something wrong until i decided to just do it all over again, but better. hopefully this doesn't take up too much of the bump limit this time.
