: The rest is very typical sci-fi space magic. Honestly you can take it as a
: story element or ignore it. How humans were devolved or whether the
: repopulation of humans has any bearings on race or true origins from
: africa, another world, space, etc. is semantics. It's definitely a
: depiction of the civilization, but like the Librarian predicting
: generational evolution, there are too many variables to take it seriously.

: Unless something like that resonates with you... then it becomes an important
: plot device, but nothing more.

I agree, they are using a colloquial understanding of evolution rather than a biological one. I suppose it's most frustrating because other "science" aspects of Halo's science fiction have been reasonably credible, or at least based on an extrapolation from something real (slipspace, dyson spheres and such like). And yet when they invoke biological terms, they disregard their actual meaning and fall back on tired misrepresentations.