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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
Not in the Lensman books...
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Actually he does. In Lensman the assumption is that exactly how the Arisian life spores that fill the First and Second Galaxies express themselves depends almost entirely on planetary conditions.
So an almost entiely Earth-like world you get Earth-like (possibly to the point of being interfetrile) humanoids. See also his alphabetic classification scheme. Humans are Type AAAAAAAAAA and so are Aldebaranians but Rigellians are AAB-something (because of the gravity and other environmental differences) and Palanians are straight Zs.
Incidentally, the inhabitants of the South Pole of Jupiter in Spacehounds are morphologically _very_ similar to Velantians.