Oh, one other point: it always seemed to me that the monolith was not showing the emerging humans how to use tools, but weapons, and that, as such, the aliens then sped up our evolution along lines of conflict and eventually tribal wars, murder and destruction, rather than a peaceful co-existence. Maybe I got that wrong? Is it possible, though, that the aliens knew that without conflict Man would never become ambitious or powerful enough to make it to the stars?
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