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From: Boebert.SCOMP@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: advanced races
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 21:25:37 EDT
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From: Boebert@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA

The term "advanced" implies that evolution is a ladder, when it can be
cogently argued (i.e., by Stephen Jay Gould) that it is a tree.  You are
not more *advanced* than a duck-billed platypus, you are just
*different*.  Aliens will be looking for something that is attractive to
them, based on their frame of reference; there is no assurance whatever
that their motivations will make any sense to us.