# (no subject) *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 26 Nov 2012* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Lee Berman *26 Nov 2012, 18:37* > Marc Aramini: the secret of the inhumi is that they are all that is left of humanity, a vestigial > parasite that can no longer breed without a fresh infusion of human blood. > For all intents and purposes, they are humans, and their little mating ritual where they pretend to > be man and woman is just ontogeny recapitulating philogeny. I tend to agree. Over and over the Inhumi are described as reptilian. Then they end up mimicking a mammalian mating ritual but reproducing like amphibians in the water. What gives? I know Wolfe's zoology is not so deficient. Marc, I mentioned an Eden connection to Green via Quetzal's story in the thread Claw = Fang?. Then there is the "GREEN is Urth!". How does this origin myth relate to the Inhumi being "vestigal parasites"? Which came first, humans or inhumi? --- ### Antonin Scriabin *26 Nov 2012, 18:45 · in reply to Lee Berman* > I tend to agree. Over and over the Inhumi are described as reptilian. Then they end up mimicking a mammalian mating ritual but reproducing like amphibians in the water. What gives? I know Wolfe's zoology is not so deficient. If I remember correctly, the Inhumi are sort of snake-like, with bones that can rearrange (some snakes have bones that can detach when swallowing large prey, and others have freely moving ribs that aid with gliding)? This gives them (in part) their shape-shifting abilities. They also change their appearance through the use of cosmetics. Anyways, there are a few species of snake that give the appearance of blurring the line between the mammalian and the reptilian ... garter snakes, for example, give birth to live young (they are ovoviviparous, meaning their eggs hatch while still inside the mother). This doesn't mean anything in regards to Wolfe, necessarily, it just popped into my head when you mentioned the strange reproductive behavior of the Inhumi and their pseudo-reptilian nature. > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Lee Berman wrote: > I tend to agree. Over and over the Inhumi are described as reptilian. Then > they end up mimicking > a mammalian mating ritual but reproducing like amphibians in the water. > What gives? I know Wolfe's > zoology is not so deficient. ---