Again you say about magnificent technology what makes everyone live long and healthy. But technology cant just pop up from nowhere. It must be developed long and hard to help people who need them while people on colonies was dying from new desieses, nature anomalies and other previously unknown to them factors. Technology evolution in such cases will hapening paralel to natural selection. So all that terroforming technology was created by blood, sweat and tears of first coloniests. I assume what technology evolution come faster then geneticaly. But it sometimes takes only 20 generations to some species adopt for new envoirement while 2 generation from them is while that new allele what gives adventage start to widespread. So how fast humans can invent all that what fully protect they lives on new planet? 20 years? 40? or maybe 100? But it also must be builded. Also i assume what Frame Shift Drive was developed not so long ago.
I don`t mean what all humans must now look complently different but some of them will. Especialy Empire colonists becose they was separeted from Sol.
So what i want to see is what differences will be between humans from different planets. I assume what thair be not much but something in apperaence must be different.
Well yes you're right about FSD being a new thing. If you look back in 3200, reaching another planet may take a few weeks, so indeed worlds were much more divided then, and possibly even more before.
The premice of speciation may be there more that i was willing to admit.
But still if the environnement changes nothing or not much about who gets to reproduce more, or survive, we may have to wait a while since you can see any 'evolution'. There will be some 'genetic drift', and mutations that arent shared with the whole species but i dont think we can have different species just yet, and even if so we'd probably not be that much different.
Terraformation was something achieved relatively early on in ED history on Mars, 2270-2290. Hyperspace as in Frontier i suppose, was discovered around 2100, Massive collonization efforts started in 2160. So less than 1140 years. I dont mean the whole set of technology is there straight from the start, but we can very quickly construct some bases. We'd have robots i suppose, why not even efficient 3d printing ^^. We dont have a clear idea how hard it was in ED. It doesnt seem to have been such a big deal. In 2240 Altair, or Beta hydri were already colonised, in 2310 we're already at Achenar. And the newly formed empire is already able to wage and win a war against the older federation.
Virus and infections well, when you look at Tau Ceti or Delta Pavonis history, it looks like it's the other way around, we infect or eliminate them rather than the opposite.
First ship sent to tau ceti in the 2140's, colony established on Tau Ceti 3 in the 2150's,
Well in the 2300's, 'aboriginal' life on Tau Ceti 3 has to be preserved to prevent its disappearance.
• This system is remarkable in that it was the first on which life was discovered off Earth. The first intrepid pioneers led by John Taylor set up a settlement and named it Taylor Colony. They were very successful and used the fertile land for agriculture, which was fully automated. The population grew rapidly and revenue was earned from hunting which more or less wiped out the indigenous life. When word got back to the Authority for Ecological Control they became concerned and issued guide-lines for conservation, which were duly ignored. (...)
There's mention of life on Beta hydri 4, Altair 5. Later on Achenar, no mention of that affecting human's health at all.
The life in Delta Pavonis is elimanated within a few years of our arrival, well the gazetteer(my source for what i said above) say "the same year".. through bacterial contamination.
But instead of 'evolution'. There are other things to consider first that will happen much faster than gene evolution. Just like you get darker skin in summer if you go out a lot or much more white if you dont. There Gravity, atmosphere composition, the star, what you eat, and more, all that will have a relatively fast impact for sure, how much is unknown.
Look at Bedaho description if you want, that should interest you.
http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Gazetteer/bedaho.html
Bedaho is famous throughout the known worlds as the home of the goldskins. There are very few worlds which do not leave some marks upon the human population, but few are as obvious as that of Bedaho. While many humans go to some lengths to hide any effects their home planet might produce, the population of Home delight in showing off their differences.
• Any form of life which grows on Home is infected by a native life form, at the sub- cellular level. It is entirely benign and some people believe that it confers resistance to some viral infections. The only side effect of infection is to turn the host creature a radiant golden colour. A visit to Home is like taking a trip into King Midas' court, the world glows with gold from one horizon to the other. Every living creature on the planet shimmers with life and glisters in golden hues. The crops are gold, the trees are gold, the animals are gold and the people are golden. (...)
'No evolution' doesnt mean 'no variation' at all.
