Copied from Poul Anderson Appreciation:
In
"Starfog," the last story of Poul Anderson's History of Technic
Civilization, descendants of the Aenean rebels who fled from known space
at the end of The Rebel Worlds, have spent so many generations
ingesting, and becoming dependent on, heavy metals and becoming tolerant
of ionizing radiation that they can no longer interbreed with standard
humanity; they are no longer human.
In "Watershed," the
last story of James Blish's pantropy series, Earth has changed so much
that it will now be colonized by Adapted Men while standard humanity
must adapt to the new social role of a racial minority - a historical
watershed for the sometimes despised Adapted Men.
These
different scenarios have in common the understanding that, over long
periods of time, everything changes, from planetary environments to DNA.
And there is no unchanging human nature.
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