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it's always weird to me when people try to explain what pokemon are and why they exist in that world when, like. they're just like animals here. the main difference is we don't have tiny balls that can capture them and compel them to fight for us. but our world is also filled with tiny monsters
ok AND most animals can't shoot fire at you or eat your dreams. there's a FEW differences i'm just saying its not THAT far off
but why do they use lamarckan evolution. they apparently have some fundamentally alien biochemistry that isn't based on dna. do humans follow lamarckan evolution in this universe? if not, why do they differ so completely from every non-plant species on this planet as well as some of the plant ones? (if humans evolved via regular neodarwinist genetics, what did they evolve from?) and if so, shouldn't it show up in their civilizations? shouldn't we see humans trying to evolve themselves in addition to trying to evolve their pokemon?
critically, if we assume humans and pokemon descend from a different primal replicator, explaining the totally different mechanisms of evolution— humans are shown drinking moomoo milk. we never see humans eating meat in the pokeverse, but even the idea that pokemon milk is edible to humans rather than causing horrible digestive problems and possibly death due to alien amino acids implies new and troubling things
