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Hey Silouen,

I'll bet those acorn-brained dinosaurs proved hard to educate all
right. They seemed to be nature's experiment in trying to use brute
force to overcome all obstacles. But no way they could cope with a
sudden change in the environment.

There were many sudden radical changes in the environment during the
reign
of dinosaurs.
It was more to it than that.
And some dinosaurs rivaled mankind in intelligence, Double-A.
Might even say that some were quite a bit smarter in many ways!


Should I be taking umbrage at that remark?



You are alive -- your species is extant -- better to wonder about the
survival value of intelligence?

Do you resent the fact that a no-brained amoeba has lived far, far longer
than humans? (or even dinos for that matter)

I'm more interested in what happened to the Neanderthal people of
Europe. Their brain sizes averaged larger than ours. Could they
really have been the slow-witted ones? Were they really wiped out in
a
genocidal war with Homo sapiens?

Since you claim to have been her longer than humans, was it your
genetic alterations on a higher race of apes that led to our species?
Did you give us the gift of intelligence? Did you take a killer ape
and give it a mind?

Double-A


Well, first of all, the Neanderthal did have larger cranial capacity,
but
the gray matter was poorly organized.
Sort of like comparing a small orderly file to a dumpster.

There was very little large-scale fighting back then.
Things like war and genocide came later with growing numbers of humans.

The Neanderthal people couldn't compete with the more modern humans.
They didn't disappear entirely, though.
They've just gone where few or no modern humans would be interested in
going.


That sounds intriguing. Of course some think they might have interbred
with us and become blended into our more dominant gene pool.



Yes, this has happened.
Young rebels disliking their ancestors' choices have been known now and then
to sneak away and mate successfully with sapiens.

As for seans altering human genes?
Sorry, this never happened.
There have been times when we've performed minor experiments in a
Cultural
context, but never have we tried to manipulate any species' physical
evolution.
Remind me after first contact, though, to tell you of a people who Did
do
experiments with human genetics.
Up until recently, they were the most common poachers we dealt with.
They were a dying race, and they no longer live.

Sil

Couldn't they save themselves through genetics?

I cannot say much about them now.
You will learn all there is following first contact.
Enough now for you to know that nothing we could do could save them.
And we still don't know why they began to age, and why their aging could not
be stopped.
It's a little unsettling for us, but we figure it will be at least another 3
billion years before it might affect us -- plenty of time for our research
to uncover something.

The Germans tried to develop a super race through traditional selective
breeding techniques. But they didn't have the gene splicing methods we
have now to work with.

I fear that the next Third Reich will have the tools to actually create
a super race!

Double-A


When will you people learn?
The super race is already with you -- it is called "the human race" -- stop
being afraid to agree upon what makes you super, and begin Being super on a
wider and wider scale.
It is far easier and quicker to change one's behaviour than to **** around
with genes.

Humans are super/superior in so many ways, even to us!
As good a flyer as I am, your Ollie flies rings around me.
Since we seans have relatively poor eyesight, we can greatly appreciate how
sharp human vision is, generally.
And even more important, the human ability to intimately and thoroughly
Describe things they see -- having you around makes the whole universe seem
brighter and sharper!

Sil