Imagine going back and being like “Yeah, let’s talk about exactly why these are the final stage of human evolution.”
And then it turns out that being a salamander is actually awesome, and they can shoot laser beams from their eyeballs and fly in space without a warp drive or something.
I mean, if they’re just salamanders at the height of their evolution, then Q must be stifling a laugh at all times.
Well, the thing about evolution is it doesn’t always lead to “better”, only “more able to survive and reproduce in the environment”. Which means any kind of hyper-accelerated “evolution” would be entirely random.
Evolution also isn’t something that can happen to an individual, and I’ve yet to see a sci-fi story about this actually explain why it’s happening outside of natural selective pressures.
Imagine going back and being like “Yeah, let’s talk about exactly why these are the final stage of human evolution.”
And then it turns out that being a salamander is actually awesome, and they can shoot laser beams from their eyeballs and fly in space without a warp drive or something.
I mean, if they’re just salamanders at the height of their evolution, then Q must be stifling a laugh at all times.
Well, the thing about evolution is it doesn’t always lead to “better”, only “more able to survive and reproduce in the environment”. Which means any kind of hyper-accelerated “evolution” would be entirely random.
Evolution also isn’t something that can happen to an individual, and I’ve yet to see a sci-fi story about this actually explain why it’s happening outside of natural selective pressures.