06-07-2013, 09:59 PM
I thought I'd add a few links that might be useful for contributors wanting to add political or social details to their worlds and clades;
Here is a list of 'Human Universals' by Donald E. Brown
http://condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm
Humans all over the world have certain things in common, no matter what their culture is. Any human-derived clade might be expected to share some or most of these characteristics, unless they have been deliberately altered or suppressed in some way. Conversely, an alien species, or a species derived from some non-human provolve or neogen, need not have all these characteristics, and if they do share any of them, it might be instructive to discuss why that is the case.
Here is a list of 'Human Universals' by Donald E. Brown
http://condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm
Humans all over the world have certain things in common, no matter what their culture is. Any human-derived clade might be expected to share some or most of these characteristics, unless they have been deliberately altered or suppressed in some way. Conversely, an alien species, or a species derived from some non-human provolve or neogen, need not have all these characteristics, and if they do share any of them, it might be instructive to discuss why that is the case.