If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

Critics have argued that if our language organ is the result of evolution then we should see traces of it in the apes. After all, we are descendants of apes, aren’t we? Well, no, we aren’t. Humans and apes are linked by a common ancestor that perhaps lived as long ago as 7 million years.