[fhe]

another analogy would be: aliens abducting a bunch of humans and recreating the Stanford Prison Experiment and write up on human society based on that, which ends-up reshaping alien culture.

[zdw]

I would buy this sci-fi book.

[enragedcacti]

The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey is surprisingly close in concept. It's Book 1 of a trilogy by the authors of The Expanse.

[d0mine]

The results are likely to be different (aliens won't try to bias the same way original researchers did).

[ninalanyon]

Why not? Evolutionary pressure is likely to be the same elsewhere, why should we think that it will have different consequences?