The Conversation: Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted…

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare... #evolution #physics #evolutionarybiology

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/the-conversation-evolving-intelligent-life-took-billions-of-years-%e2%88%92-but-it-may-not-have-been-as-unlikely-as-many-scientists-predicted/

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