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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
What would be the long-term results of a race having Daredevil, and developing from TL0 to TL9? I'm primarily looking for generic analysis, though it would help if the analysis was also made for a race which also had Honesty (Racial Only -20%) and a 1-TL advantage in aviation over other cultures (ending up TL10 in aerospace technologies while TL9 in others), and slightly retarded in Biotech (later invention of cattle-keeping, and basically zero farming due to being carnivorous) - -1 to bio-TL.
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I think it could plausibly be said that in David Brin's Uplift novels humans have Daredevil as a racial trait, and Galactics lack it. Which is why humans scare the bejasus out of the rest of the galaxies.
Bill Stoddard