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I don't know about Adonalasium and evolution, but I always saw the LIsteners as the natural progression of Rosharan evolution. The carapace armor being a throw-back to the carapace shells of the greatshells, white spines, etc. It's the humans, who HAD to have developed off world since they have no protection against the highstorms, and the Ryshadium and 'normal' Horses (Am I the only one that thinks that the Ryshadium are horses with Spren?) were brought with them. It raises the interesting point that the 'heroes' of the story are the invaders (normal humans), and the Indigenous people (the listeners) are the 'bad guys'. Maybe we've got the story all wrong and have been rooting for the Cortez's and Pizarro's all along!

The diagram remind me a lot of "psychohistory" from the Asimov foundation books. T even says he isn't predicting the future, and the use of mathematical models in the interlude seems to point to the diagram being the result of a prop ability calculation. The problem, and this is why Tarvingian wants so desperately to " update" the diagram, is because the variables are changing. The KR are appearing, etc. I also wonder if the night watchers boon was for T to see a way to unite roshar, but the curse is that this unity will be the result of roshar uniting against him. With Szeth being free of his oath stone, it seems plausible that T's machinations may be exposed.