Quote Originally Posted by Elladie View Post
I just wanted to point out that Yoshida's assumption here isn't at all far-fetched. The Sundering happened only twelve thousand years ago. Homo sapiens had appeared on earth as long ago as two hundred thousand years. So twelve thousand is barely any time at all in evolutionary terms. All the species and races most likely existed pretty much as they are now on Etheirys before the Sundering and would have evolved only slight differences since. Obviously cases like the Dragons and the Ixali are exceptions and won't appear on the other Shards
It all depends on your personal headcannon really. And besides, the laws of magical evolution would obviously be different from actual real world evolution.