The Evolution of the Snake People

The scorching sun eventually cooled down, and life flooded back to the surface from her subterranean stronghold. As animals of all kinds exploded into terrestrial niches that had been left vacant for millennia, so did the descendants of the worms. On the surface, they found new opportunities as entire assemblages of serpentine grazers, swimmers, predators. And people, one form descended from tree climbing mimellanian snakes, re-evolved the human intelligence that had lain dormant for so long. They looked nothing at all like their huge distant human ancestors, but their social development followed a similar path. Several agricultural world empires, followed by industrial revolutions, social experiments, world wars,