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Originally Posted by Link_86_1
I have posted this in another Zora to Rito thread...
If you take a large number of things into consideration, real life, movies, etc. then you can answer alot of these things.
First off, anyone see Water World? Based off of real world principles, at least the planet it's self, IF the water levels rose that high on earth, the fresh water (from the ice caps, or in this case, the rain) would be enough to delude the salt water, there for making it drinkable (btw, that's a scientific fact) so, even if the River Zoras didn't like salt water, there would be little to no salt in the Great Sea for them to get their fins all in a bunch.
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This sounds like its far more in tandem with why they SHOULDN'T have evolved, rather than why they SHOULD have.
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Secondly, if we look at evolution, in real life, we, humans, evolved from fish, which turned into reptiles, which then turned into mammals, which again turned into primates, and of course finally us (scientific fact, not religion). Birds are a direct descendant of dinosaurs. And dinosaurs came from the waters as fish.
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A little simplified, but mostly correct. You forgot about amphibians though. I would classify the Zora as amphibians as they can live both in the water and on land, though for only short periods on land, just as real life amphibians can only survive short periods on land without returning to water.
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So, what can this tell us? Simple, it's not to far fetched to think that the Zora evolved into the Rito. What we know about the placement of TWW and OoT, is that TWW takes place hundreds of years after OoT.
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Oh, it's pretty far fetched, considering that amphibians to birds took a few hundred million years, whereas we're talking about a few hundred between OoT and WW.
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So, this brings me to two theories. First, I'm guessing that Valoo and/or Jabun/Jabu Jabu were told about the mass flooding in advance by the goddesses, and were told to advance the race so that they maybe could not go see old Hyrule.
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This is not a theory. This is what we call a hypothesis. A statement made about an observation but that is still mostly speculative. There is absolutely no concrete reason to believe that the goddesses would warn the demigods. Hell, they completely skipped the demigods and told some of the people to take refuge on the mountaintops. If the goddesses told anything to the Zora, my guess is that they told them to move away from Hyrule, as I suggested in one of my previous posts. I didn't attribute it to the goddesses, but I hypothesized that the Zoras move away from Hyrule, possibly to Labrynna, where they appear later in OoA. Also, we dont' even know if Jabu-Jabu survived OoT. He is nowhere to be found in the future Hyrule. And since WW is on the adult side, it is quite debatable as to whether Jabu-Jabu is even alive.
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Or secondly, they (Zora) would not be able to survive in a world of large monsters. Water levels rise, and you don't exactly know what is under the waters. PH gives us a good example of that, with the flying whale in all. Evolution doesn't happen unless the species needs to to survive.
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And the Zora were doing just fine with all of the monsters in OoT. Why wouldn't they continue to do fine in a world that was practically designed for them? A whole freaking ocean, and all of a sudden, they DON'T have the advantage. No way. I do not buy it at all. They could have survived just fine after the flooding.
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Also in a study (from last year) they have proven that evolution can happen in a mere few generations. So, perhaps the evolution of Zora to Rito isn't so far fetched, but the circumstances have to be dire. And if the goddesses deemed it, it could be dire to them.
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Source? As far as I know, the only time that evolution ever had any rapid progression was the Cambrian Explosion, although most scientists believe that we just don't know enough about that time period to accurately discover what caused the seemingly sudden explosion of complex life forms. And even in the Cambrian Explosion, it took several hundreds of years (at least that we know of, though I think probably much more), which is far more than just a few generations. So, I'm really going to have to ask for a source on that study before I can even begin to consider it.