Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13417807-20130726023954/@comment-12654584-20130808233605

Pink Slim wrote: Greenerseyes wrote: since elves live longer, they are fewer generations away from the Aedra generations? yes. evolutionary stages? not even a little. Pink Slim, biologically speaking, less generations since time 0 means less genetic drift since time 0. Add to that the Altmer's selective breeding habits, and they probably are much closer biologically to the original Aldmer (assuming that they don't have a radically higher rate of gene mutation than other races or something).

However, this is incredibly poor justification for their arrogance. It does not make them better in any way than any other race. In fact, I'd say it makes them worse; a species that reproduces infrequently also evolves slowly.