Talk:Zootopia/@comment-27624316-20160324003839/@comment-27997791-20160324110952

Not really. Evolution is all about selective pressure and stuff, there is no timeless and global trend in the way that organisms develope, the reason why we look and work the way we do is becasue of the particular lineup of selective pressure in our past, it's not inherently linked ot us becoming more intelligent, so there is no real need to assume a non-human primate would necessarily tend towards a human form as it grows intelligent.

But either way, it doesn't matter, because this movie doesn't exatcly seem to make it a top priority to portray a evolutionarily plausible or possible scenario. It makes no sense for most of these animals to become this smart, as they don't have the suitable anatomy to make efficient use of such intelligence, nor does it make sense that all of their selective pressure would suddenly be such that steps towards intelligence would suddnely be promoted, as if through a coordinated and collective effort to make all the aniomals intelligent in the smae way, at the same point in time, despite evolution being a blidn process of cumulative changes driven by mutation and seelection mechanics. Nor do I think we would expect the animals to evovle to look like they do in the movie if they evovled intelligence.

But it doesn't matter, because I didn't go to the movie to be given a plausible evolutionary "what if" scenario, I presonally hold to the view that pretty much any set of implausible, inexplicable, irrational and overly convenient set of premisses are allowed if they serve to set up a good story and the characters within the story react and interact believably and the rules that are set up for the world are followed consistantly.

I'm rambling, amn't I? Well, to wrapp up, the reason there are not priamtes in zootopia is because they didn't feel like having anything too human-like, it's not becuase intelligent primates would necessarily evolve into humans, and even if evolution predicted that's what would happen, it's not like this movie is that dedicated to adhering to the principles of evolution anyway.