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With
all
these
advantages
it
barely
got
away
from
the
starting
gate
.
You
see
,
it
's
short
on
mutations
;
it
does
not
enjoy
Earth
's
high
level
of
natural
radiation
.
Its
typical
and
most
highly
developed
plant
life
is
a
very
primitive
giant
fern
;
its
top
animal
life
is
a
proto-insect
which
has
n't
even
developed
colonies
.
I
am
not
speaking
of
transplanted
Terran
flora
and
fauna
--
our
stuff
moves
in
and
brushes
the
native
stuff
aside
.
With
its
evolutionary
progress
held
down
almost
to
zero
by
lack
of
radiation
and
a
consequent
most
unhealthily
low
mutation
rate
,
native
life
forms
on
Sanctuary
just
have
n't
had
a
decent
chance
to
evolve
and
are
n't
fit
to
compete
.
Their
gene
patterns
remain
fixed
for
a
relatively
long
time
;
they
are
n't
adaptable
--
like
being
forced
to
play
the
same
bridge
hand
over
and
over
again
,
for
eons
,
with
no
hope
of
getting
a
better
one
.
As
long
as
they
just
competed
with
each
other
,
this
did
n't
matter
too
much
--
morons
among
morons
,
so
to
speak
.
But
when
types
that
had
evolved
on
a
planet
enjoying
high
radiation
and
fierce
competition
were
introduced
,
the
native
stuff
was
outclassed
.
Now
all
the
above
is
perfectly
obvious
from
high
school
biology
...
but
the
high
forehead
from
the
research
station
there
who
was
telling
me
about
this
brought
up
a
point
I
would
never
have
thought
of
.
What
about
the
human
beings
who
have
colonized
Sanctuary
?
Not
transients
like
me
,
but
the
colonists
who
live
there
,
many
of
whom
were
born
there
,
and
whose
descendants
will
live
there
,
even
into
the
umpteenth
generation
--
what
about
those
descendants
?
It
does
n't
do
a
person
any
harm
not
to
be
radiated
;
in
fact
it
's
a
bit
safer
--
leukemia
and
some
types
of
cancer
are
almost
unknown
there
.
Besides
that
,
the
economic
situation
is
at
present
all
in
their
favor
;
when
they
plant
a
field
of
(
Terran
)
wheat
,
they
do
n't
even
have
to
clear
out
the
weeds
.
Terran
wheat
displaces
anything
native
.
But
the
descendants
of
those
colonists
wo
n't
evolve
.
Not
much
,
anyhow
.
This
chap
told
me
that
they
could
improve
a
little
through
mutation
from
other
causes
,
from
new
blood
added
by
immigration
,
and
from
natural
selection
among
the
gene
patterns
they
already
own
--
but
that
is
all
very
minor
compared
with
the
evolutionary
rate
on
Terra
and
on
any
usual
planet
.
So
what
happens
?
Do
they
stay
frozen
at
their
present
level
while
the
rest
of
the
human
race
moves
on
past
them
,
until
they
are
living
fossils
,
as
out
of
place
as
a
pithecanthropus
in
a
spaceship
?
Or
will
they
worry
about
the
fate
of
their
descendants
and
dose
themselves
regularly
with
X-rays
or
maybe
set
off
lots
of
dirty-type
nuclear
explosions
each
year
to
build
up
a
fallout
reservoir
in
their
atmosphere
?
(
Accepting
,
of
course
,
the
immediate
dangers
of
radiation
to
themselves
in
order
to
provide
a
proper
genetic
heritage
of
mutation
for
the
benefit
of
their
descendants
.
)
