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Most alien life forms were obviously alien. But there were a few like the Lani where similarities were so close that it was impossible to determine their status on the basis of morphology alone. And so the Humanity Test had come into being. Essentially it was based upon species compatibility on the concept that like can interbreed with like.
Tests conducted on every inhabited world in the Brotherhood had proven this conclusively. Whatever changes had taken place in the somatic characteristics of mankind since the Exodus, they had not altered the compatibility of human germ plasm. Man could interbreed with man aliens could not. The test was simple. The results were observable. And what was more important, everyone could understand it.
The two kinds of pig sometimes interbreed, but crosses are not common; and, from the colour, size, shape of the head, and general behaviour, one can easily tell at a glance what kind of pig gets up before his spear, whether it is the heavy, sluggish black boar, or the veritable fiery, vicious, fighting grey tusker.
Did plants become animals somewhere along the way? Or did animals, somewhere along the way, turn into plants? How long did they interbreed before the gap became too wide? Where are the descendants of the union between plants and animals? If animals were first developed from this first germ, what did they live on while there was no vegetation?
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