How do you define what's the masterpiece of evolution? Sounds pretty hard to me.
The crocodile, who has lived unchanged and unchallenged since before the dinosaurs?
Or bacteria, who will still be there after a nuclear war, always changng and adapting?
Or human, who have found a way of asking that question?
Or something entirely different...
Think of a race that has evolved beyond the need for physical bodies. Or immortal things of raw energy... or things that could survive a big bang/big crunch. Intelligences vastly beyond our own. Or things so adaptible they wipe out everything else simply because there's no need for any other lifeform any more...
