Anthropomorphic Anatomy, Period 3, 15 Apr '09

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"Adaptation," Mohinder began. "Starting from an enviroment similar to this the human body has certain expectations of the outside world - heat, light, pressure, gravity enough not crack your bones, air whose content won't scorch the lungs or leave it asphyxiating before it dehydrates."

"But that's only on this world - and others like it," he said passing out sets of notes. "And from such a relatively limited sample it would seem presumptous to think the same would happen elsewhere"

Mohinder turned to sketch out an equation on the board at the front of class, talking fractions of stars with planets, the likelihood of life developing, of intelligence etc, before throwing down the chalk. "Ultimately, this is all just guesswork and - out of Fandom's influence - we can't reason out if intelligent alien life exists without some kind of evidence."

"And if it did would we recognise it?" Mohinder settled back behind his desk. "How would life evolve on a very different planet? Or if you know it has - then how did it?"

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"They call it survival of the fittest for a reason," Ender said. He tapped his pen against his notepad again. "Billions of years of history, but too often it amounts to who's got the biggest power, who wields pain the best of everyone else. In that regard, evolution is the same everywhere."