Editing Xenology (section)

=== Dissection 6 - Kroot ===
[[Kroot]] need to eat to evolve, their reproductive system is built-in to their digestive system. You eat something, you pass it on, so their homeworld of Pech contains many apex predators constantly evolving as they consume one another. The creative portions of their brains are literally smaller and less-developed than the logical-rational ones --
think a human with a bigger left half of the brain than the right (yes, we know it's [[Skub|debatable]] that this is how the human brain actually works, but Kroot aren't human).
*It is strongly suggested that Kroot therefore evolved into what we know today entirely by accident and that Orks crashed onto their planet early in their history. Not only causing them to become vaguely humanoid and intelligent, but Kroot '''CAN''' tap into the information contained in Ork DNA, and could therefore intuitively build devices even though they had no idea how to do it and would have difficulty developing such tech on their own. However, that was ancient history and modern kroot are presumably much more evolved and diverse since '''Shapers''' took over and directed the tribes eating habits to prevent them from moving into genetic dead-ends.
*It is also hinted that the [[Tau]] are hindering the evolution of the Kroot by forcing them to curtail the worst of their eating habits, and thus the intake of useful new genetic material.