It's time once again to crash-land on that mad, bad, counter-evolutionary planet where a bunch of hairy, counter-jumping apes lord it over us humans.
Although there is certainly an element of choice at work here, it is also clearly an evolutionary process, the planet mashing things together, as it always has, creating a healthy diversity for itself and new forms of life.
Although the design staff had opted to give a fantastic rather than scientific representation of evolutionary theories and planet development, the crew was assisted by teachers from local schools to provide information on geology and biology to the programmers.
Ecologist Peter Warshall, in one of the longest and best documented essays of the whole book, narrates what he calls the 'photo-biological evolutionary history of the planet' (p. 130), that is 'the story of the planet's photo-environments together with life's photosensory systems' (p. 129).
Still, there's something to be learned by considering not just the evolutionary history of our planet, but its short-term future.
Set on a planet whose evolutionary arena makes the jungles of Earth look like playgrounds, the story tracks a dead man who is bent on righteous revenge.
Reefs are hot-spots of marine biodiversity, and vital to the evolutionary history of the planet.
Its body plan would reflect the evolutionary history of its planet, not ours.
And it is wild to have your own lifetime coincide with the time when the whole evolutionary history of the planet is going through a major squeeze.
There are many other possible measures of the potential loss – including culture and science, the evolutionary history of the planet and the significance of the lives of all of our ancestors who contributed to the future of their descendants.
There are many other possible measures of the potential loss including culture and science, the evolutionary history of the planet and the significance of the lives of all of our ancestors who contributed to the future of their descendants.
