![]() ![]() One Oankali from each gender comes together to form a mating group. They have three genders: male, female, and ooloi. The Oankali reside on a living, self-sustaining spaceship. The Oankali is an alien species that survives through gene trading, meaning that they must mix their DNA with another species’ DNA in order to continue evolving. Throughout the novel, Lilith's humanity is repeatedly tested, but she always clings to the hope that one day humans will repopulate the Earth and be free from the Oankali. Initially, she is repulsed by the appearance of the Oankali but she eventually learns to live among them. ![]() ![]() She is chosen because she is intelligent, tolerant, and rational. Lilith is chosen by her alien captors, the Oankali, to lead a group of 40 other humans to return to Earth. She is a twenty-six-year-old woman who Awakens aboard an alien spaceship 250 years after a nuclear war has killed off most of the human race and rendered Earth uninhabitable. ![]()
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