>Evolution would be slower without intelligence but who cares, is there a race out there? I'm quite certain that does not have anything to do with "speed of ev

>Evolution would be slower without intelligence but who cares, is there a race out there? I'm quite certain that does not have anything to do with "speed of evolution". I am not a biologist, so I can't come up with a better source, but I'd suggest that everyone would very carefully study at least the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution which looks like a reasonable summary.