Quote Originally Posted by lord_khaine View Post
Except its very easily accomplished the moment you have an ascendant civilisation meddling in things.
No, it isn't. It just can't be done without constant continuous meddling, weekly meddling.

Everything on Earth is related to everything else. We are something like 90% identical to lions, and equally so to all the other mammal, except the great apes where it's more like 99%. Lobsters, crabs and squid it's probably down somewhere like 60-50%. Cabbages it's probably as low as 35% (that's all my guesses, I think I heard the lion one somewhere, but I don't remember where). Really, we are all related. If you want something with the same DNA by accident, the odds are ridiculously long, all the atoms in the universe against one long.