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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| 格式: | Journal article |
| 語言: | English |
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Royal Society
2022
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