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Homin Biology Sheet (Censored)

Published: Jun 1, 2015

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Description

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Overview

Homins are a sapient species of humanoids that live on the planet, Kaf. Homins have distinctive long, prehensile tails and hand-like feet capable of well-articulated movements. In fact, Homins walk upright on two legs while on the ground, and crouch on two or climb on all fours along the branches of trees.

Despite being natives of another planet, they share a common ancestor with modern humans. They also still have most of the traits shared by all species of humans, making them as at home on the ground as they are in the trees. Even with humble beginnings in the high leafy canopies of tropical forests, their drive, curiosity, and determination allowed them to settle in various forests the world and even grow new ones to expand their territory.

Quick Species Profile
(Homo arboreus)- "tree dwelling human"
Life Span
Typical: 65 years
Oldest: 180 years
Average Height: 0.91-1.20 m (3'0"-3'11")
Average Weight: 18-36 kg (40-80 lbs.)
Creature Type: Natural Humanoid

Biology

Homins are a sentient species that belong to the simians, a subgroup of the primate order of mammals. As such, they were similar to a number of other species variously designated as apes, including the non-sentient chimpanzees, gorillas and number of mammalian humanoids with a similar physiology. Homins are endotherms, or "warm-blooded" animals, meaning they maintain a constant body temperature independent of the environment using the energy from their food.

Appearance

Hair: Black, Brown, Blond, Auburn, Red, Midnight Blue
Eyes: Brown, Hazel, Amber, Green, Blue, Gray

For the most part, homins greatly resemble modern humans only noticeably shorter when full grown.

Unlike all other humans (and apes in general) they are all born with a fully prehensile tail that extends from the lower base of spine and covered with a fine layer of hair, the same color as that on their head. Their tails are generally longer than their main body.

Another common human trait is they have only a thin, barely visible covering of body hair. Most of thicker visible kind is concentrated on the head, underarms and groin after puberty and, in the case of adult males, face.

Their hair can be grown, cut, and styled for aesthetic or ritualistic reasons—the facial hair grown by adult males could be grown, styled, or shaved completely. Their hair color ranges from blond to black, sometimes with hues of red or brown, changing to gray or white as years passed and could be straight, wavy, or curly or frizzy. Unique to the species is a natural shade of midnight blue hair.

In addition to those varied hair colors, their eyes come in shades of blue, green, gray, or brown. Gradiation of skin tone usually ranges from various shades of brown, ranging from beige to light brown, and dark brown.

Concerning the head and torso, homins have the same proportions as other humans but the difference lies in their limbs. Homin legs are relatively shorter to their body and their arms are a bit longer. This is why their hands can reach to their knees without them bending their legs.

Homin toes have multiple points of articulation, one of them an opposable thumb that allows for fine manipulation and grasping.

Physiological Traits

Species of Human: Homins are a member of the human family of animals, having the same direct ancestor as Homo sapiens. What makes they stand out is their various adaptations to an arboreal lifestyle which resembles that of other simians. Homins however share similar facial features, spinal/hip structure, and mental capacity with the human family.

Prehensile Tail: Homins have a long, flexible tail that projects from the sacral triangle that they can use to hold on to branches and alternatively, carry objects. Their tails are covered in terminal hair that matches the color on their heads. Longer than their legs, they have a patch of skin grooves similar to fingerprints. This adaptation to their mostly arboreal lifestyle serves as a fifth hand and strong enough to suspend their entire body from a branch.

Prehensile Feet: Homin feet have a grasping opposable big toe, similar to great apes. They are capable of a precision grip as well as a power grip, having the the same range of articulation as the hands. Unlike the great apes, a particular bone embedded within the foot tendon helps keep the foot rigid, especially when jumping from one surface to another like humans.

Thin body hair: Although technically covered in hair from head to toe except their palms and soles, it’s so thin and fine they look hairless. Their thinner body hair and more productive sweat glands help them avoid heat exhaustion while running or climbing for long distances.

Arboreal locomotion and expert climbing: Homins are mostly brachiators, propelling themselves through the forest by swinging under the branches using their arms. On branches and the ground, homins can walk on two legs.

High Agility: They can leap well above their heights due to high power to weight ratios launching them. The arms of Homins are long (they can put their hands on their knees standing up; take a moment and try to do the same). They can swing from branch to branch for distances of up to 15 m (50 ft), at speeds as high as 55 km/h (34 mph) and make leaps of up to 8 m (26 ft). When climbing a cliff face, they can typically travel up seven feet per second on average.

Strong Grip: Their grip strength can allow them to easily carry their own body weight on only their fingertips which tend to be longer than other humanoids due to bulkier knuckles.

High power to weight ratio: Homins bodies are relatively robust, and can withstand and exert a high amount of power. Their climbing lifestyle accentuates the need for arm and leg strength. A homin’s skeletal muscle has longer fibers than the human equivalent and can pound for pound, generate twice the work output over a wider range of motion. This also allows them to jump at least one-third higher than top-level human athletes.

Biomagical Attributes

Mana Manipulation- Being natural humanoids, when homins channel mana from the environment into magic, the energy generates a substance known as mana plasma. Their magic involves manipulation of mana plasma to do various things such as act as a projectile, barrier, mimic other substances, or alter preexisting magical effects.

General Diet

Homins are opportunistic omnivores, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material. They are partial to food that contains a high sugar, fat, or salt content.

Staples of their diet is fruit, tree nuts, edible flowers, leaves, eggs, and various invertebrates likes insects or mollusks. They will also hunt for edible fungi and small vertebrates such as lizards, rodents and small birds. Communities with agricultural practices will make the efforts to grow crops like shrub berries, starchy tubers, beans, and gourd vegetables within constructed gardens in their treetop dwellings.

Reproduction

Homin females are fertile year round, and in which no special signals of fertility are produced by the body. Opposed to many animals, female homins have a menstrual cycle roughly every month. Homin women will also go through menopause, typically after 50 years of age, in which they will no longer bare children. Homin males remain fertile much longer, many well into their 70's.

As with other mammals, homin reproduction takes place as internal fertilization by sexual intercourse between an opposite sex couple to produce offspring. While developing in their mother's womb, the child gives her a distinctive "baby bump" accompanied by a significant weight gain. Being mammals, the homin females give birth to live young, either one or several at a time. Two children born at the same birth are referred to as twins, and three as triplets. The delivery itself normally takes place after nine months of pregnancy. It is a painful process that can take as much as ten hours. In some circumstances, women could die during childbirth, although it became less common in places with access to top-notch medical technologies. During their first months of existence, Homin babies are usually fed with milk from their mother's breasts.

Lifespan and Growth

The period during which a young Homin develops from a child into an adult is known as adolescence. Unlike modern humans, homins don't go through a growth spurt, explaining their adult stature. As for when they hit sexual maturity, it averages 12-16 for females and 14-17 for males.

Homins hit their peak of physical and mental capacity from the years of 25 to 35, after a decade or so from their bodies may deteriorate in quality without specific diet or exercises. A homin without advanced medical treatments can likely live roughly half a century, recent advances able to extend this to possibly a century and a half.

Regardless of physiological and psychological changes, the legal transition from childhood to adulthood depends on culture. While some societies treated their members as adults as early as the age of 13, others considered that full adulthood was only attained at 21.

Etymology

Homin is based on a shortening of hominid, the proto-human ancestors of the genus Homo, including modern humans.

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DaddySites

Jul 25, 2015

I like it, good idea!