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We would have different bones/muscles/joints.
What kinds of differences are you thinking? I'd have thought existing joints would be reinforced, limbs shorter, bigger muscles for high grav or the opposite for low
The dwarves live in high gravity, elves live in low gravity. :O
Lmao yeees would explain why the elves live longer too because their bodies are under less strain
Idk, humans couldnt survive gravity changing all the time. Probably have bones filled with material that changes density with gravity fluctuations.
yeah any sort of large change would kill us in our current form, like less oxygen in the atmosphere killing off a number of larger species in Earth's past. this world would have to have adaptions like you mentioned.
The expanse goes into some interesting generational changes between people who live on earth, Mars, and in the asteroid belt. Belters are tall and scrawny and when they go to earth they can't stand and the gravity crushes their bones, extremely painful. The only way they can be there comfortably is in water. I'd imagine different areas with different "weather " would have different types of adaptations and travel wouldn't be as common/easy.