Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over ma… - Octavia E. Butler

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Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.