Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images The evolution of humans on Earth may not be entirely exceptional. That is because intelligent life is likely to form if certain planetary ...

But if none of these steps were hard, then why didn't humanlike intelligence evolve much sooner in the history of life? Geobiologists reconstructing the conditions of the ancient Earth can easily ...

The evolution of humans on Earth may not be entirely exceptional. That is because intelligent life is likely to form if ...

What do you think? Is intelligent life inevitable? More specifically, is intelligent life an inevitable result of evolution?

Geobiologists reconstructing the conditions of the ancient Earth can easily come up with reasons why intelligent life did not evolve sooner in Earth history. For example, 90% of Earth’s history ...

Biologists identified a series of “hard steps” on the journey from abiogenesis – that life evolved naturally from non-living matter – to modern civilisation. These steps, such as the evolution of ...

Some of the greatest evolutionary biologists of the 20th century famously dismissed the prospect of humanlike intelligence beyond Earth.

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once ... He meditates on why the octopus, with such high intelligence, lives for such a short time. And he asks us to imagine what it feels like ...