The Rise and Fall of the Breeders

Bioluminescent lights flickering cephalophod skin televisions, additional sea squirts and countless other devices that had been bred from living creatures. Modern breeders did not even need to use animals. A simple manipulation of cultured tissues and stem cells would give solutions to any problem at hand. One of humanity's eventual inhibitor-inheriters were not even human. They came from the reptilian stalk that had proliferated during the demise of lizard herders. The humans degenerated into wetless animals, cold-blooded reptiles, prospered in the tropical climate of their planet.