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This group has gotten far more active than I had ever anticipated, and now requires constant vigilance to keep submission acceptance and category sorting up to date. I have noticed that it is very common for people to submit images to the wrong folder, which makes my job a lot harder. Up until now, I have usually been willing to remind the person to submit to the correct folder, or sometimes just move it myself.
From now on, submissions to the wrong folder will be rejected without explanation. I no longer have the time to manually move dozens of images every day, and type out many comments for something that should be very self-explanatory. If you submit an image to this group and it is rejected without explanation, please check to ensure you've submitted to the correct folder - this will be by far the most common reason for rejection.
The biggest problem tends to be people submitted any and everything to "General Art", or "Animations" because it's the first folder alphabetically and evidently people are lazy. Here's a brief synopsis of the purpose for our most active folders, and what you should avoid.
General Art - NOT a wastebasket folder for "anything". This is a folder for living animals, portraits of scientists, and generalized concepts that relate to biology and evolution. Do NOT put artworks or photographs of prehistoric animals in this folder. This is by far the biggest submission problem we have. If the animal in question has gone extinct in the time of modern humans, then submission to the general folder is fine.
Paleoart - All submissions related to prehistoric taxa can go in this folder. This includes prehistoric Cenozoic animals, not just dinosaurs. Photographs of fossils can go EITHER in this folder or the "Photographs and Photomanipulations" folder. If you are unsure whether something is or is not paleoart, please don't hesitate to ask.
Charles Darwin - Anything related to Darwin goes in this folder. Anything related to any other evolutionary scientist goes in General Art. Yes, Darwin gets special status. This is his domain, after all.
Speculative Evolution - ALL spec evo goes here. Speculative dinosaur species go HERE, not in paleoart. Paleoart is for REAL ANIMALS ONLY. Also, we do not accept generalized dragons, Pokemon, Digimon, or other "evolution-related" cartoon fanart UNLESS it has some extenuating feature in the description or image that relates it uniquely to evolution. A sequence of Charmander "evolving" into Charmeleon is not evolution-related enough for this group.
That is all, carry on!
This group has gotten far more active than I had ever anticipated, and now requires constant vigilance to keep submission acceptance and category sorting up to date. I have noticed that it is very common for people to submit images to the wrong folder, which makes my job a lot harder. Up until now, I have usually been willing to remind the person to submit to the correct folder, or sometimes just move it myself.
From now on, submissions to the wrong folder will be rejected without explanation. I no longer have the time to manually move dozens of images every day, and type out many comments for something that should be very self-explanatory. If you submit an image to this group and it is rejected without explanation, please check to ensure you've submitted to the correct folder - this will be by far the most common reason for rejection.
The biggest problem tends to be people submitted any and everything to "General Art", or "Animations" because it's the first folder alphabetically and evidently people are lazy. Here's a brief synopsis of the purpose for our most active folders, and what you should avoid.
General Art - NOT a wastebasket folder for "anything". This is a folder for living animals, portraits of scientists, and generalized concepts that relate to biology and evolution. Do NOT put artworks or photographs of prehistoric animals in this folder. This is by far the biggest submission problem we have. If the animal in question has gone extinct in the time of modern humans, then submission to the general folder is fine.
Paleoart - All submissions related to prehistoric taxa can go in this folder. This includes prehistoric Cenozoic animals, not just dinosaurs. Photographs of fossils can go EITHER in this folder or the "Photographs and Photomanipulations" folder. If you are unsure whether something is or is not paleoart, please don't hesitate to ask.
Charles Darwin - Anything related to Darwin goes in this folder. Anything related to any other evolutionary scientist goes in General Art. Yes, Darwin gets special status. This is his domain, after all.
Speculative Evolution - ALL spec evo goes here. Speculative dinosaur species go HERE, not in paleoart. Paleoart is for REAL ANIMALS ONLY. Also, we do not accept generalized dragons, Pokemon, Digimon, or other "evolution-related" cartoon fanart UNLESS it has some extenuating feature in the description or image that relates it uniquely to evolution. A sequence of Charmander "evolving" into Charmeleon is not evolution-related enough for this group.
That is all, carry on!
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New submission guideline announcement
Please note the addition of a new addition to our submission guidelines: from now on we are only accepting submissions that were created by the person submitting them, or that were uploaded with the creator's permission. A few examples of things not allowed under this new guideline:
Renders of 3D models created by someone else. (However, original scenes that use someone else's models are acceptable, as long as the scene was created by the submitter.)
Video game screenshots, unless the screenshot is showing an original scene that was created in the game, such as a reconstruction of a paleo scene or a model created in Minecraft.
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Our Book on Evolution: Signed Copies Available
Just over a year ago, your group admins—myself and Agahnim (https://www.deviantart.com/agahnim)—reached a major milestone in our long-term goal of evolution education and outreach, which served the basis for starting this group over 11 years ago. We published our first book! Published by Inkwater Press and titled God’s Word or Human Reason?, the book has been available on Amazon since January of last year.
I am now offering direct purchases of signed, inscribed hardcovers that are personalized with a drawing of a bird or dinosaur of your choice. They are $40 (U.S. and Canada) or $50 (everywhere else), shipping included. Thanks to my excellent web develope
Paleoart folder full: New folder, Paleoart II
After 11 years of activity, our Paleoart folder is now full to capacity. I have closed this folder to submission attempts and have created a new folder for paleoart, Paleoart II, so please direct all artworks of prehistoric life to this folder and this folder only. Any paleoart submissions to the General Art folder will be declined without comment.
I have added a notice of this change to the rules on the main page, as well as to the description of the full folder (now renamed Paleoart I) to minimize possible misunderstandings.
Thank you to all of our members for continuing to make this group the biggest evolution-themed community on Deviant
Recently expired submissions: please resubmit!
Hi loyal Domain of Darwin followers,
Over the past couple of weeks I have been shamefully neglectful of the group, and stupidly allowed a handful of submissions to expire. Unfortunately, it seems as though most of their notifications have disappeared from my inbox, so I cannot solicit them individually. Therefore, if you submitted something to the group in the past several weeks and it did not get accepted, please resubmit at your earliest convenience! Very sorry once again.
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Thanks. I was wondering that. 