Don’t forget the mimic species that evolution selected for because they look like something else. Even the most complex video game is nothing compared to nature’s complexity. I’d love to learn about geology, but look at how many variations there are in just one group of minerals. Biochemistry is the real misleading one - “I’m just a few types of atoms” Yeah, in a shitload of combinations.
And all pokemon of a species usually look the same! Very few gendered traits, age differences (unless you count evolution, and that still counts for more species in pokemon than irl), season differences, plain old individual differences, etc.
Don’t forget the mimic species that evolution selected for because they look like something else. Even the most complex video game is nothing compared to nature’s complexity. I’d love to learn about geology, but look at how many variations there are in just one group of minerals. Biochemistry is the real misleading one - “I’m just a few types of atoms” Yeah, in a shitload of combinations.
And all pokemon of a species usually look the same! Very few gendered traits, age differences (unless you count evolution, and that still counts for more species in pokemon than irl), season differences, plain old individual differences, etc.