Evolution As Such Is No Longer A

I Had Found Again And Again That The Most Aberrant Population Of A Species - Often Having Reached Species Rank, And Occasionally Classified Even As A Separate Genus - Occurred At A Peripheral Location, Indeed Usually At The Most Isolated Peripheral Location.

There Is More To Biology Than Rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, And E. Coli.

Life Is Simply The Reification Of The Process Of Living.

Isolating Mechanisms Are Biological Properties Of Individuals That Prevent The Interbreeding Of Populations That Are Actually Or Potentially Sympatric.

The Issue, As Correctly Emphasized By Carl Sagan, Is The Probability Of The Evolution Of High Intelligence And An Electronic Civilization On An Inhabited World. Once We Have Life (and Almost Surely It Will Be Very Different From Life On Earth), What Is The Probability Of Its Developing A Lineage With High Intelligence? On Earth, Among Millions Of Lineages Of Organisms And Perhaps 50 Billion Speciation Events, Only One Led To High Intelligence; This Makes Me Believe In Its Utter Improbability.