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direction from the statistical principles regulating the degradation of matter. On another occasion we shall suggest that ENTROPY and 'NEGANTHROPY" are synonymous and equivalent terms within the conception of this universe that "IT IS SO FOR ME". We all realize that there exist multiple structures of living beings whose morphologies and functions genetically inherited from their ancestors have seemed to you to depend on two types of conditioning factors: The physical and ecobiological environment and on the other hand - possible alterations in the nucleic acids provoked by the aggression of microphysical elements (nutations caused by radiations, etc.). The very rich and complex fauna you have observed on Earth (not so rich or varied on UMMO) has made you think that the number of possible species is infinite. Under this supposition (and within the limits its naturally imposed by physical conditions totally adverse to the development of complex carbon compounds) - you might think that on other planets with very marked "geophysical" differences there can exist fabulous thinking beings whose somatic structurization might appear monstruous. Nothing is further from the reality. In fact, planets that we have known and whose characteristics of atmosphere, mass, the star around which they orbit, etc., different from Earth and UMMO, harbor in some cases humanoid creatures with similar mental structure, but whose bodies present only accidental anatomophysiological differences (different statures, varied epidermis, organ development, cranial size and brain surface, etc.). In reality there are laws (which we shall explain on another occasion) which condition the orthogenesis of creatures, permitting at most an indefinite number of different forms when the biophysical environment requires it, but always provided that these various forms be compatible with a biological substratum or universal pattern that tolerates (only) circumstantial and superficial modifications (in reality a complex series of patterns is involved) (See note 28). When the environment is excessively hostile, it does not come about that a species perishes after attempting to adapt itself to it with a frustrated mutation; it is simply impossible for the new species to appear. Hence an immense multitude of planets exist on which no living creatures are found, or expressed another way, only planets with characteristics similar to ours harbor species which in their average evo- lutionary forms differ from s4 those known to you, but which conserve traits common to the species already familiar to you (similar nerve and circulatory systems, bone and tissue structures with different forms but with physiological and cytoplasmic 39