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Do or have any races just evolve normally in the 40k universe?

The Orks and eldar are created by the old ones. Someone very powerful is obviously watchers ng over and guiding the Tau. It's heavily implied the old toads also had something to do with humanity's origin.

I was thinking the necrontyr might have evolved naturally but as I recall the nightbringer was in fact orbiting their home star, feeding on it and causing it to be so violent it basically sprayed the necrontyr home world with radiation storms that made them the way they were , so even their evolution was interfered with by great powers, if only unintentionally(?)

Now the old toads, the slann, did they evolve normally? Did anyone tamper with their evolution? Were they like one of the few races that got to evovle normally?

I don't recall anyone asking this before. So maybe this is an original question. I assume aybe some minor races got to evolve before the Imperium murdered them. But if so they hardly matter now.

 Grimtuff wrote:
In the timescale of 40k evolution simply cannot occur. 10,000 years is nothing when you're talking about that.

That's what makes the jump the Tau made from stone age to where they are now in a few thousand years so mysterious. Either it was due to the The Warp tampering with time or something else.

There's nothing mentioned of the Old Ones origins in modern 40k. They're a creator race, why would they need origins (It's turtles all the way down ) and frankly it's something that should never be explained.

Look at how human technology exploded in the century between 1900 and 2000. Maybe the tau's advancement was natural, with a warp storm keeping the imperium from exterminating them.

Also the 40k timeline extends back at least 60 million ± years, plenty of time do do some evolvin'.

The tau have a water and air caste and an earth and fire caste. Maybe the fire and earth caste have hooves since they occupied plains, the water castes may have feet since they're better for swimming.

 Grimtuff wrote:
That's not why the caste is called that though...

ARE we sure the water caste didn't start out on the coasts, sailing the seas, and retained feet while other casts settles plains and developed hooves?