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foundations already known in their general lines. But the differences are still less in the oligocellular or primary creatures and in the other scale, in the complex phyla (anthropoida). We establish criteria in order to differentiate the "superior or intelligent anthropoid" from the inferior animal, even though the latter may posses anthropoidal characteristics like those of Earth primates. It is the presence of the third factor OAMBUAM that we shall describe farther on. And we call OEMII the somatic complex (material and therefore perceptible to our sensory organs) that you term "HOMO SAPIENS". We have just pointed out that the thinking beings existing on the relatively few inhabited planets (see Note 29) do not differ excessively from us (we have been surprised by the fantasies engendered by your novelists and even Earth biologists who postulate the existence of beings based on the chemical silicon, or intelligent pluripodous, monohthalmic monsters with gelatinous skin, etc., etc.. Naturally, being ignorant of that series of laws, you Earthmen are in a cultural stage in which such hypotheses proliferate and cause scientists to speculate. We know that a phylogenetic hypothesis postulating an excessive amount of liberty for the genetic message to be translated into all kinds of superior biological body types is incorrect. If the ecological environment is propitious and analogous to the one we know on our respective OYAA, the appearance of "humans" as you term them, or DEMII according to our language, will be possible. If, contrariwise, the biophysical conditions are adverse in the degree and estimation we indicate below, yes, the appearance of other living "nonrational" beings will be possible (see Note 30), hut never THINKING BEINGS. Although to offer you a list of all the physical conditions necessary would be complicated, we have chosen some of the most important. Those planets which do not posses definite features within such limits will not be host to human or thinking beings, who necessarily have to be like us in their anatomy. 40 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TERRESTRIAL OEMIT AND THE OMEII FROM UMMO.(i.m. men from Ummo and from earth) SPECTRUMS OF THE PHYSICOBILOGICAL CONDITIONS PREREQSITE FOR THE EVOLUTION OF OEMII FROM INFERRIOR