>>Personally, I think "Homo sapiens sapiens" is extremely inaccurate and conceited a name. I prefer "Nudipan narrans," which means "Naked, story-telling ape."<<

*laugh* I like that one.

>> there's some of that going on in "Darwin's Children" (the sequel to "Darwin's Radio"), <<

Yes, that was cool, although much of the series was about interspecies conflict.

>> That planet had FIVE sentient species of greatly different kinds living together: primates, arboreals, reptilians, insectoids, and aquatics. (Six at one time, but the avians died out.) <<

That's what I loved about Dinotopia too.