Of all the Billions of species that exist and have existed on earth only advanced hominids such as homo sapiens sapiens have developed advanced intelligence
It seems that advanced intelligence is not selected for in evolution, it has no inherent survival value, in fact it may even be detrimental to a species ( nuclear war etc), of course one day the sun will swallow earth up and advanced intelligence would hopefully have allowed us to leave the planet long before then, unless of course we nuke ourselves back to the stone age
If out of all the Billions of species only a handful have developed advanced intelligence, all of them being hominids then its seems likely that advanced intelligence is a very rare thing.
Now if the dinos lived for 160+ million years and did not develop advanced intelligence and yet we did in the space of a few million years ( homo sapiens has only be around for a few hundred thousand years) the next question is if the impact which killed the dinos off had not occurred would highly intelligent life have evolved on earth ?
If the dinos were not made extinct there is no reason to suggest that they would have developed high intelligence, and if they had been made extinct later or earlier it may not have been the mammals that survived. And of course mammalian evolution did not have to lead to hominids or for that matter homo sapiens
So it may be that intelligent life on earth is not only remarkable in that it is so rare but if it had not been for an extinction level event at just the right time then it would never have occurred at all
Intelligent life may be INCREDIBLY rare in the galaxy..we may in fact be alone !!!
err.. of course our "rare" intelligence" could have been acquired from "visitors" !!!!
It seems that advanced intelligence is not selected for in evolution, it has no inherent survival value, in fact it may even be detrimental to a species ( nuclear war etc), of course one day the sun will swallow earth up and advanced intelligence would hopefully have allowed us to leave the planet long before then, unless of course we nuke ourselves back to the stone age
If out of all the Billions of species only a handful have developed advanced intelligence, all of them being hominids then its seems likely that advanced intelligence is a very rare thing.
Now if the dinos lived for 160+ million years and did not develop advanced intelligence and yet we did in the space of a few million years ( homo sapiens has only be around for a few hundred thousand years) the next question is if the impact which killed the dinos off had not occurred would highly intelligent life have evolved on earth ?
If the dinos were not made extinct there is no reason to suggest that they would have developed high intelligence, and if they had been made extinct later or earlier it may not have been the mammals that survived. And of course mammalian evolution did not have to lead to hominids or for that matter homo sapiens
So it may be that intelligent life on earth is not only remarkable in that it is so rare but if it had not been for an extinction level event at just the right time then it would never have occurred at all
Intelligent life may be INCREDIBLY rare in the galaxy..we may in fact be alone !!!
err.. of course our "rare" intelligence" could have been acquired from "visitors" !!!!
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good stuff... 
