"The forcing you speak of is an evanescent concept: if evolution is the result of our ingenuity, what is ingenuity but a natural mechanism?" "My father would say that you are losing humanity because of your evolution. The Almarians you have lost it altogether!" "Your father and the Almarians are right. The spark of evolution has been ignited ever since we crossed the boundaries of the Solar System. We became intergalactic beings, then a new species, no longer sapiens sapiens, but astralis; it was advantageous to lose humanity!" The young woman fell silent. Had she run out of arguments, or did Dr. Zhang"s cynicism leave her speechless? The mass of information floating on the big screen could not be deciphered by a sapiens sapiens mind, but Dr. Zhang filtered out the essentials; she made

