the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 years agoWe often think of aliens as green men with big heads. But what if there is another planet in the universe with humans?message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWe often think of aliens as green men with big heads. But what if there is another planet in the universe with humans?the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 years agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareincider@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 years agoYeah, if that happened, that would be new data that would need explaining, in the context of evolution.
minus-squarepinknoise@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 years agoI mean if humans were a (local) optimum in the space of possible species on earth-like planets¹, evolution would evolve them most of the time. ¹ Which I’d highly doubt
minus-squareLightbritelite@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 years agoI feel like there’d be more crab like creatures than bipedal humanoids out there, just given how many crab-alikes there are on earth
Yeah, if that happened, that would be new data that would need explaining, in the context of evolution.
I mean if humans were a (local) optimum in the space of possible species on earth-like planets¹, evolution would evolve them most of the time.
¹ Which I’d highly doubt
I feel like there’d be more crab like creatures than bipedal humanoids out there, just given how many crab-alikes there are on earth