Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted
- Written by Daniel Brady Mills, Postdoctoral Fellow in Geomicrobiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Sun's distance from Earth allows it to be habitable for life.DrPixel/Moment via Getty ImagesA popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.
But as experts on the entangled history of life and our planet, we propose that the...