So basically if you make most creatures a size they’re usually not it is wrong in some way. A kobold or maybe even a funny doggy the size a building is just too much. Sure there are instances of it happening but it’s rare and a source of much wonder confusion for how that happened. Now a dragon. You can basically make a dragon any size you want and it still makes sense. Is it 1 building big? That’s normal. Bigger than a small moon? That’s nature baby. A mere 3 grapes tall? Well that little critter makes an awful lot of sense now doesn’t it? This is because basically dragons are like fish. you wouldn’t dare tell a fish what it can and cant do,that would be absurd. the fish woudlnt even hear you because it is too busy chowing down on an delectable detritus it found. and dont even think of saying that to the dragon cause baby, the dragon is the fish’s diner buddy and it’s chewing louder than a lawn mower caught over a rock! you really should join in you know,its rude to stare
Morphological variation in dragons is sort of an n-dimensional hypervolume
Morphology (biology) = structure and form of living things internally and externally, and the relationships of these structures to one another; size, being observable, is certainly one of these characteristics
Morphological variation (biology) = the full portfolio of differences in structure and form across a given set of organisms (dragons)
N-dimensional = an arbitrary number of dimensions. You are familiar with imagining a spectrum as an X axis (say, a number line with less on the left and more on the right.) This is one dimension. To make a graph, i.e. adding another measurable quality such as “time,” you would add another spectrum on a Y axis (two dimensions). To measure the relationship of three things, you might add another spectrum on the Z axis (third dimension). To describe something complex across more than three dimensions, you would need n-dimensions.
Hypervolume = a volume existing in more than three dimensions.
N-dimensional hypervolume (mathematics) = a volume containing as many dimensions as needed to define itself.
N-dimensional hypervolume (ecology) = Hutchinson (1957) defined the (organism’s) niche as “an n-dimensional hypervolume describing the set of environments that permit a species to exist.”
Morphological variation in dragons is a sort of n-dimensional hypervolume = the variations in the observable biological differences in dragons are functionally infinite across time and space while still defining them as dragons.
Hypervolume = a
volume existing in more
than three dimensions.
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