Re: [GZG] Bovine rebuttal

["john tailby" <John_Tailby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Parrallel sentient development nearly happened on Earth with Cro Magnon man 
and Homo Sapiens and Dolphins may well count as sentient non technical.

If you had two similar creatures that existed in the same ecological niche 
they would compete and the most efficient would win. With the loser 
consigned to extinction.

I imagine it would be difficult to develop a technological society on a 
planet with large super predators, Dragons, T-rex etc. You would not get 
started developing the necessary infrastructure before some predator pack 
assaulted your encampment of skin huts and scattered your band. I imagine it 
would be hard to develop technology under those circumstances.

One of the B5 races had parrallel sentient development and then conducted 
their own ethnic cleansing to get rid of one of the races.

All sorts of interesting possibilities.



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