Free The Voting Species by John Pearce Page A

don’t go off without me
Dents.
    ‘So, who won this greatest of Galactic
gambles Prof?’
    ‘I’m surprised you ask Alan, evolution of
course.’
    ‘What if evolution strangles its own
planets?’
    ‘ That’s its
smartest trick, the one that concocts mutations that fly its genes
all over the Galaxy.’
    ‘ Thanks
Prof.’