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archibald wrote:

Cito di Pense wrote:..... keep in mind that speciation events generally take place in isolated populations. Air travel rules this out.

Air travel is just an internal means of getting around the habitat of an isolated population.

A bathtub is topologically equivalent to the sphere, if you ignore the drain and equate the input from the sun to the bather. In that scenario, life is like a bathtub ring partway up the basin, and the rest of the cosmos provides its own scouring pads.

I don't purport that this is philosophy. If you think it's literature, fine. YMMV.