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But nature is not without its resources; amongst thousands of changes in form and behavior, small and otherwise, some favor the replication of genes and others do not. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 18, Sentence #83)

The pebble is unnoticed; the mountain announces itself to the sky. Interestingly, it seems likely, as such things have often occurred, that large animals, megafauna, are commonly brought to extinction by a smaller, seemingly unlikely foe. It seems probable that, long ago, thousands of years ago, the nemesis of the hith was less the carnivorous tharlarion with which it thought to dispute its world, but an unexpected adversary, smaller and weaker, more vulnerable and fragile, but less forgiving and tolerant, more determined and tenacious, a miniscule foe, one scarcely noticed, but a foe that could plan and would not forget, an unanticipated usurper determined to set itself on nature's throne, the human. But nature is not without its resources; amongst thousands of changes in form and behavior, small and otherwise, some favor the replication of genes and others do not. A paw becomes a hand; a cell sensitive to light becomes an eye; the enlargement of a knot on a spinal cord becomes a brain. And, one supposes, it might be, that some members of a species subject to extermination on land might, in diverse behaviors, in withdrawing from strong stimuli, in fleeing, in avoiding discovery, discover that the same muscles which allow it to move on land permit it to move in water. "I am sure many ships come and go safely in these waters," I had said. - (Avengers of Gor)