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Oh man. I'm not an asari fan (you know, the typical excuse for hot alien lesbo stripper - - thing kind albeit of course they have their appeal too) But I go absolutely weak in the knees for ripped, soldiery asari ladies such as her. *fans self* My gosh her arms, her body... MORE! More please 
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Looks good again. And she's actually smiling, unlike the other one who seems to have murder on her mind. By the way,Β where have you hidden number 2? I can find #1 but not the second one.
The one thing that's a bit odd in this case is how low the center tentacles hang.
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This one is happier. Maybe they have some friendly rivalry during training with other commandos. As for #2 .. hm. There is none, I just named this one 3, I guess I'll need to make #2 too ))
Β As for tentacle thing, I think they might have slightly different crests, longer\shorter\more curved, or that can be just my mistake ))
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It would be great if you could make a number 2.
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Must say I like these pieces of yours - you're showing us tough, physical asari instead of the stock slender-graceful type. One assumes that aliens will show no less physical variation than humans do.
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although I agree with your point, I must say that the human genopool has waaaaay more variation than alien genopools (mordin Solus, when you recruit him, I think, he states that humans are genetically diverse, more than aliens) But in this case with this asari it is more of training than genetically decidedΒ
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Well, that's no surprise since they are all just slightly reshuffled clones of their mothers.
But at least Turians, Krogans, Batarians, etc. should be similarly diverse.
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but still not as diverse as humans. Since their homeworld are not varied ether. (Tuchanka has lots of desert, even before the krogan created a nuclear winter and destroying the climate. Palavan, according to Garrus is like Virmire, so tropical. Dekuuna has only seas, forests and grasslands. Kahje is one big ocean. Rakhana (homeworld of the drell) is covered in rocky deserts and nothing else. I have no idea about rannoch. Sur'Kesh is covered in seas and earth-like jungles, although more humid. Thessia I have no idea about either, but since there are clones, as you said, that explains their little variation. and earth has icecaps, all kinds of forests, grasslands, different kinds of highlands, deserts, tropical areas, cold seas, warms seas, fresh water, slat water. So yeah, they might be diverse, but humans have multiple ' races ', which were a result of different environments and nowhere in the lore is stated that aliens have no races among themselves (also nowhere is stated that that isn't the case). But still there should've been more diversity among the alien species, but not as much as there is with humans
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I don't know, Humans' racial differences are pretty much just superficial. The big thing that mixes up genes is sexual reproduction with 2 sexes, and all species except the Asari have that, so I don't see any reason why Humans should have an advantage in that department.
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is it an advantage? I mean, look at furgenson (or america as a whole), except biologically the different skin tones have created nothing but injustice and pain. human evolution has had a lot more mutations than the evolutions of other sentient species. (as Mordin had stated). Live on earth had more mutations in its evolutions. That, together with the huge variations of different kinds of environments and the fact that earth has strong seasons (compared to the other homeworlds, with some exceptions though) explains why humans have a more differs genopool than other aliens. Also huan DNA has a lot of junk DNA, compared to other living things on earth, I'm not quite sure how that is the case with aliens, but that might also explain the diversity of humans. ofΒ As a matter of fact I think that the salarian genopool is shrinking, due to their strict reproduction rules and selection of mates. The quarian had an enormous bottleneck when the geth killed a looooooooot of quarians. For the vorcha evolution has almost stopped (as explained on the wiki). The Asari.. well we already named a few reasons. The elcor tend to live in tight knitted comunities, so basically groups kind of isolate them selves, which should, when they live in other enviroments for long times (multiple generations) result in more diversity. the batarians, i have no idea about, as goes for the hanar. I have no idea how volus look, and if they look all the same. The geth are engineerd. as are the collectors. then there are the krogan. The krogan have about as much diversity as humans in appearance, well concerning colors that is. (think of the color of the skin and the color of the horny plate which is their forehead), as is the case with turrians. But the krogan and turrian lack the huge diversity in body proportions. Β But the diversity in humans has also shrunken, there are less fat people and really thin people. Due to more interactions between various human populations Β the percentage of red haired people and green eyed people would be lower then now ( every year now there are less and less people born with traits based on recessive alleles).Β
my conclusion:
Humans should have more diversity than the other races, but the alien races should have more diversity than is now the case. (in game humans lack a great deal of diversity to, because all in game humans are based on the same model).Β
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Well... let's not get ahead of ourselves here. We know practically nothing about other species, even the ones featured in ME. Just because the devs had Mordin say that Humans are more genetically diverse than others doesn't mean that is really the case.
Because my point is mainly this - genetic diversity is created mostly by mixing genes from two individuals, not so much by mutations caused by outside factors. So as long as you have a large enough base, things will get mixed up nicely. The different climates on Earth just cause people to develop adaptations to those environment. Elsewhere, those adaptions may not convey any advantage at all, or may even be disadvantageous.
As for "junk DNA" - I view that the same as the claim that we use only x percent of our brain - at best an exaggeration, at worst complete bs. We just don't understand enough.
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Those are some good points. And I don't have anything to add to this nice discussion. Although one point, that mordin might've been wrong.. "Must have been me, someone else might have gotten it wrong"
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Lol, ok, you're right. Mordin's the genius scientist, and I surely have gotten something wrong. But it was a good exchange of ideas, thank you.
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it was a fun discussion. No need to thank me
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Just don't make the mistake of thinking the models used in the games reflect on the lore.Β All human males use the same model.Β Same for human females.Β Asari use the human female model, just reskinned.Β All krogan males the same model, all salarians use the same model, same for the drell, and so on.
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oh no, I know. the fact that asari use the human female model i always found disappointing, but it doesn't compromise the story and the role playing in the least.
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It doesn't.Β Just don't assume the other species have little to no genetic diversity.Β They have enough genetic diversity to remain a viable species, else they would have died off due to over-expression of lethal alleles. Β You'll still be able to find individuals who are outside of the average.Β They'll just be rarer.
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true, but humans have a lot of mutations, thus more deadly alleles, thus humans need a large gene pool to survive, thus humans are very diverse. Aliens, as mordin stated, have less random mutations compared to humans. Thus there would be less deadly alleles, thus a smaller gene pool (than humans) would be ok to survive as species. And of course there are always individuals that don't quite follow the rule. And i don't say that alien have no genetic diversity, well maybe the vorcha, the collectors and the rachni.
But i forgot one big point. The way people (and animals, and plants, and propably aliens) look is not only defined by their genes, but also the environment in which they developed. for example the milieu in which they grew up. And now other planets are colonized, people grow up in space and low/high gravity worlds, worlds with a little less oxygen (or other required gasses, in the volus case). The gravity directly affects the length in which they grow, the amount of oxygen has an effect on how much volume the lungs can hold, thus how large the torso is, living in space would definitely have effects on the growth.Β
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