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: Cool. What will we do about "regional fakes"/ "Convergent Evolution" like Diglett/Wiglett and Tentacool/Toedscool? {{unsigned|Alexfc}} | : Cool. What will we do about "regional fakes"/ "Convergent Evolution" like Diglett/Wiglett and Tentacool/Toedscool? {{unsigned|Alexfc}} | ||
::There's not enough of those to warrant a page, I feel. I think just a mention about them may be inspired by convergent evolution in their respective origin sections is fine.--[[User:Force Fire|<span style="color:#44BAE5">'''F'''</span><span style="color:#85D2EE">orce</span>]][[User talk:Force Fire|<span style="color:#DA7D99">'''F'''</span><span style="color:#E7ABBD">ire</span>]] 05:25, 19 November 2022 (UTC) | ::There's not enough of those to warrant a page, I feel. I think just a mention about them may be inspired by convergent evolution in their respective origin sections is fine.--[[User:Force Fire|<span style="color:#44BAE5">'''F'''</span><span style="color:#85D2EE">orce</span>]][[User talk:Force Fire|<span style="color:#DA7D99">'''F'''</span><span style="color:#E7ABBD">ire</span>]] 05:25, 19 November 2022 (UTC) | ||
== "Convergent species" == | |||
I can't help but give this stuff the side-eye. | |||
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In Paldea, '''convergent species''' were introduced, which is a twin concept to regional forms, but differs in a few ways, as they are different species with different names and separate Pokédex slots instead of alternate forms. | |||
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In [[Paldea]], convergent species was first discovered by [[Jacq]] and discussed at the World Pokémon Ecological Society conference. Initially, the Pokémon convergent species were believed to be regional forms until its was proven otherwise, and instead entirely new species that have adapted differently, but happen to develop very similar visually. | |||
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In addition to Paldean Forms, [[Generation IX]] introduces convergent species that closely resemble Pokémon from other regions. Several of them were initially mistaken to be Paldean Forms in universe, but the actuality is that they are completely different species unrelated to their original counterparts. | |||
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===List of Paldean convergent species === | |||
A total of four convergent species were introduced in [[Generation IX]]. | |||
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I haven't started playing yet, but nothing in here supports that this is a "thing" specified by the games so much as a concept that fans are running wild with and just sure it's official (more or less). And sure, we can document fan stuff in some ways; but we also have to be real careful to make it clear what's from fans and what's actually from the games (or related material). | |||
I'm removing it for now because the only "evidence" I know of is just a few lines where someone says "This Pokemon is like this other one—but they're not the same!" And that's way too little for all the stuff quoted above. And frankly, I don't know if it'd belong on this page anyway. Though I'm also really not sure where it ''would'' belong—it does feel like it'd be best to talk about it somewhere. | |||
But yeah. Please give me any/all quotes about this stuff. As far as I've asked, I haven't heard anything that'd support all this (like this). [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 18:16, 24 November 2022 (UTC) | |||