Despite your distaste for dreaded continuity, do you think longer-format web comics will ever achive the popularity of strip-based comics like yours? Is a longer, more plot-driven narrative too much work for too little payoff? Do three hypens exceed the quota for a question?
I think you may be confusing intention with natural selection. These creatures intended to cross a body of water, and had the smarts to do so, so they did. However, no one is suggesting that they intended to grow smaller due to adverse conditions. In theory, it just so happened that smaller individuals could stay cooler, get by on less, and therefore have more babies for some reason. Darwinian evolution is only swayed by intelligence when intelligence influences your breeding power, so barring a rather harsh eugenics program, "Hobbit" smarts probably had nothing to do with their evolutionary decrease in size.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you and you're just wondering why they didn't just leave if the island sucked so bad. Well, it might not have. It may have been great, but the smaller, more efficient folks may still have had a reproductive advantage that allowed them to prosper even more than their peers.
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Despite your distaste for dreaded continuity, do you think longer-format web comics will ever achive the popularity of strip-based comics like yours? Is a longer, more plot-driven narrative too much work for too little payoff? Do three hypens exceed the quota for a question?
I think you may be confusing intention with natural selection. These creatures intended to cross a body of water, and had the smarts to do so, so they did. However, no one is suggesting that they intended to grow smaller due to adverse conditions. In theory, it just so happened that smaller individuals could stay cooler, get by on less, and therefore have more babies for some reason. Darwinian evolution is only swayed by intelligence when intelligence influences your breeding power, so barring a rather harsh eugenics program, "Hobbit" smarts probably had nothing to do with their evolutionary decrease in size.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you and you're just wondering why they didn't just leave if the island sucked so bad. Well, it might not have. It may have been great, but the smaller, more efficient folks may still have had a reproductive advantage that allowed them to prosper even more than their peers.