Intelligent Life: A Natural Outcome of Planetary Evolution?

Intelligent Life: A Natural Outcome of Planetary Evolution?

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by postdoctoral researcher and geobiologist Dr. Daniel Mills from the University of Munich challenges that idea, and the implications are game-changing for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.