New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life
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Michael Shermer Show. Today's subject is Well aliens, sort of. Not the UFO UAP stuff, we've covered that already, but the actual search for
extraterrestrial intelligence, techno signatures, biosignatures, the real science stuff. Uh, this was triggered this episode was triggered by a a paper I read that came out in Science advances called A reassessment of the hard steps model for the evolution of intelligent life.
Hard step to model is that Uh, it's hard to get from uh bacteria to big brains and so there's too many steps. So we're probably Either alone or very rare. our uh my uh guest today uh beg to differ and they wrote a long piece on this. There's Daniel Mills uh
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