I was blogging on the difference between sapience and sentience <br /><br />In looking as sentience one could say that there is a lot of it on earth but with sapience you pretty much have only one species. Looking up the number of species on earth living now its an estimated 5-100 million with only 2 million identified by science. I tend to use the larger number to somewhat account for the stuff that is already extinct.<br /><br />This gives you odds for sapience at 1 in 100 million species, though I dont guarantee those odds are correct.<br /><br />Now if you have a planet with <u><i><b>abundant </b></i></u>life (like Earth) we could expect that there would be 5-100 species which almost guarantees a sapient species for every world with abundant life. Of course the odds of the occurance of a world with abundant life are another matter.<br /><br />I was thinking of a table in the vein of traveller world gen tables where: <br />0 = no life<br />1 = trace microbes<br />2 = ubundant mircobes <br />3 =<br />4 =<br />5 =<br />6 = 100s to 1000 species<br />7 = 1000s to 100,000 species<br />8 = 100,000s to 1 million species<br />9 = abundant 10 to 100's of millions of species
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