>>>Man, Mars must be a happening Place, biologically speaking, to give
>>>rise to that many sentient species
>>
>>That capacity for co-existence is certainly reflected in their modern
>>government. Especially since the planet's half the size of Earth.
>
>Well, it is quite sparsely populated (and it doesn't have those giant,
>unwieldy oceans rendering so much of its surface impractical to
>inhabit). It's not like you've got billions of people belonging to
>five separate species all crammed together into, say, India. :)
>
>--G.

At this point, no. Does UF's Mars follow what we think of as Martian history, or more a Barsoomish (the old "Mars had water oceans that dried up" of Burrough's time idea) planetary lifecycle?