And no one respects the Welsh. They're just a dumping ground for consonants.
The French are not arch foes of America, they're like the little brother that you like but that you constantly pick on for being so weird.
What happens if you just peel all the skin off already? Are you just molting or is it like a chrysalis and there's something completely new underneath?
The Crepuscular Saga:
Dusk
Moonless Night
Occultation
Shattering Sunrise
The Hues of Black Trilogy:
Half a Hundred Hues of Black
Half a Hundred Deeper Hues of Black
Half a Hundred Hues of Black Unbound
Black
I would throw every single one of these books into the 'forbidden' category. If not a bonfire.
Chalkboards: Chalk dust is messy and, theoretically, harmful. In large doses.
Whiteboards: Dry erase pens are messy, expensive, dry out, give off harmful fumes, and stain anything they write on (including, sometimes, the whiteboard).
Progress!
Unfortunately this world and its species are all we have to go on at the moment. It's possible that we've actually observed intelligent life elsewhere in the solar system and just haven't recognized it.
I failed to explain completely--bipedalism and binocular vision are examples of convergent evolution here, each having evolved on several distinct occasions. Certainly it doesn't rule out radial symmetry or crystal entities or what have you, but if I had to bet money on the form intelligent alien life will take, it'd be a bilaterally symmetrical, bipedal form with binocular vision.
I've wondered about that. Obviously aliens wouldn't look exactly like humans but there's clearly a bias towards bipedalism at least, if not also opposable thumbs and binocular vision.