He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani Civilization would likely do exactly the same thing, if Civilization had a massive intelligence deficit, and somebody showed up from a parallel timeline with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-related mutations.

He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani Civilization would likely try exactly the same thing, if Civilization had a massive intelligence deficit, and somebody showed up from a parallel timeline with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-related mutations.

He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani Civilization would likely try exactly the same thing, if Civilization had a massive intelligence deficit, and somebody showed up from an alternate timeline with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-related mutations.

He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani Civilization would likely try exactly the same thing, if Civilization had a massive intelligence deficit, and somebody showed up from an alternate timeline with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-promoting alleles.

He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani Civilization would likely try exactly the same thing, if Civilization had a massive intelligence deficit, and somebody showed up from an alternate timeline, with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-promoting alleles.

He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani Civilization would likely try exactly the same thing, if Civilization had a massive intelligence deficit, and somebody showed up from an alternate timeline, with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history, yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-promoting alleles.

He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani civilization would likely try exactly the same thing, if Civilization had a massive intelligence deficit, and somebody showed up from an alternate timeline, with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history, yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-promoting alleles.

He does not, in fact, have any right to be surprised by this.

Dath ilani civilization would likely try exactly the same thing, if somebody showed up from an alternate timeline, with +4SD intelligence, derived from a different selection history, yielding an entirely different set of intelligence-promoting alleles.