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As for "bugs," I'm aware of the technical meaning, but Bruno had made it clear that she was using the nontechnical meaning.
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02-08-2018, 12:18 PM | #22 |
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"Split off from" sounds a little strange, as hexapods seem still to be classed as arthropods. In any case it would be odd to treat "all the traditional arthropods other than insects" as one group, and insects as another group; crustaceans and arachnids and myriapods are about as distant from each other as arachnids are from insects. (In contrast to chordates, where we can trace a sequence of splits giving rise to the traditional classes—amphibians from fish, reptiles from amphibians, mammals from reptiles, and then birds from reptiles, I think—most of the arthropod classes seem to have diverged from some unknown earlier source, more or less contemporaneously. They're more a bush than a tree.)
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02-08-2018, 12:37 PM | #24 |
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Fleas (and grasshoppers) don't use muscles to store and release energy for the jumping, they use elastic tissue. Kangaroos use the long ligament in the leg and pendulum action in the tail to store energy for hopping.
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02-08-2018, 12:59 PM | #25 |
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Or given that generation times tend to be shorter in arthropods than chordates, maybe humans and sea urchins. If that. There are still people who think Arthropoda really ought to be split into several phyla some of which may be closer to others (usually velvet worms or tardigrades) than each other.
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And if you can release energy quickly to power an amazing jump, but your ability to lift, hit, grapple, and so on isn't at all proportionate, then what you have is not, in GURPS terms, ST but Super Jump.
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02-08-2018, 04:09 PM | #28 |
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Practically every vertebrate animal uses some form of elastic energy storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasti...sms_in_animals)
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02-08-2018, 04:48 PM | #29 |
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I'm not sure that DF Pixies use ordinary muscles either for their ST...
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02-08-2018, 04:53 PM | #30 |
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Since they don't have to "wind up" before every movement, they clearly aren't using grasshopper or flea springs. And they don't have big pendulum tails :)
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