Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-366087-20151027201544/@comment-31.205.75.38-20151027215150

Love Robin wrote: 31.205.75.38 wrote: but some crazed evolution in the RWBYverse concocted the Faunus (convergent evolution en masse apparently) in the first place Again, do we know that is the case? How do we know the origin of the faunus are NOT humans which were genetically spliced in the distant past? And "fully functional" means more than ear twitching and motion, which is muscular only and relatively easy to gengineer compared to a full second set of auditory mechanisms.

Well if one wants to be picky we don't know for absolute 100% undeniable certainty without a shadow of a doubt....but it seems pretty likely and no other explanation has been offered. Thus we assume it's the result of evolution. And if ears evolved, we assume they have a use and aren't merely vestigial organs that have yet to be removed by natural selection. It's like Shadows area mapping - we don't know that's truly correct but all evidence suggests it is and no evidence suggests anything to the contrary.