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When scifi works construct species whose culture narrowly reflects their biology in simplistic ways, while humans are off doing everything they can to defy their bodily limits, including shooting themselves into space
When scifi works construct species whose culture narrowly reflects their biology in simplistic ways, while humans are off doing everything they can to defy their bodily limits, including shooting themselves into space
Humans:
* Building robot arms
* Living in space
* Genetic engineering
* Using exotic drugs that make them ill in outlandish ways
Aliens:
* Tradition-bound
* Have a narrowly restricted mating season and even more narrowly restricted gender roles due to blahblahfartblahblahblah
* Genetic engineering, to only follow their instincts
* Every single aspect of culture explained by evolutionary psychology