My idea: For the record

Humans themselves are probably evolving at an appreciably slower rate (at least in any way that counts) than any other animal on the planet. The reason for this is that our technology is now doing our evolving for us, which raises an interesting point: If there are other sapient species in the universe, are they all on roughly equal intellectual footing? Their innate intellect effectively stops evolving after they have developed the capacity to use tools and shape their environment to their needs.