Catastrophe risk can accelerate unlikely evolutionary transitions

Intelligent life has emerged late in Earth’s habitable lifetime, and required a preceding series of key evolutionary transitions. A simple model (the Carter model) explains the late arrival of intelligent life by positing these evolutionary transitions were exceptionally unlikely ‘critical steps.’ A...

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Main Authors: Snyder-Beattie, A, Bonsall, MB
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Royal Society 2022