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

The argument in favor of this inevitability relies on another supposition: that our universe is a system presently engaged in a life cycle. Smart takes as his inspiration here the relatively new ideas of evolutionary developmental biology (“evo-devo”, as it’s often known).

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