There is a special brane in the bulkverse that’s called Havenverse, because it
mostly doesn’t allow crazy scifi things to happen. There’s no time travel, no
aliens, no technology too advanced for a given time period. It’s, for lack of
a better term, normal. There was a breach into this universe once, but the
window was sealed quickly, and in general, it’s the safest place to be if you
want to get away from whatever insane adventures you’re having. Of course,
because it’s so pristine, it’s the hardest one to access, and it’s pretty well
protected by outsiders who want to keep it as it is, and will do anything to
stop it from being corrupted. All told, however, it is not unique. There are
many universes like it, where its inhabitants tell stories about robot
werewolves from another dimension, or fairies that live in your hair, but
where these things are not real. Havenverse is different because it doesn’t
allow such things to exist, but many others, for all practical purposes, are
the same, because such things simply never came to be. There’s one in
particular I want to talk about that is insignificant, except for an
interesting prehistorical twist. Much like the Linsetol of the last story, a
certain species managed to survive in their world longer than their parallel
universe counterparts. They’re known as the Neanderthals, and while they did
not last through the modern day, they did have a much greater impact on human
evolution. On most versions of Earth, a human will contain up to four percent
of Neanderthal DNA, indicating that the two hominids interbred, at least
minimally, before the latter went extinct. Experts believe that homo sapiens
out-competed their brethren for food and other resources, but had they become
more cooperative, and less selective with their mates, co-existence could have
persisted, for a little while, anyway. Like I said, Neanderthals did
eventually disappear, but a lot more had to do with them becoming assimilated
into the homo sapien population. Modern humans, thusly, found themselves
walking around with anywhere between eleven and twenty-four percent
Neanderthal DNA. Not only is this six times greater than it is on other
Earths, but it also presents a much wider genetic gap amongst the population,
which at one point threatened to generate a divide between different peoples
in the modern day. This didn’t happen. Actually, the opposite happened. Upon
learning more about their own genetic evolution, the humans of this Earth
ended up uniting to form a singular society much earlier than other Earths.
They recognized that diversity was a good thing, and a source of strength,
rather than a weakness. They started working together more, and quickly
abolished war. They staved off climate breakdown, and prepared for potential
pandemics. Science progressed faster, and capitalism fell to a civilization
defined by post-scarcity. It is for this reason that antinatalist species, the
Ochivari ignored this universe. By preventing themselves from destroying their
planet, they also kept themselves out of The Darning Wars.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
Monday, April 19, 2021
Microstory 1606: The Advantage of Diversity
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