08-23-2018, 04:49 PM
Thanks to KB for pointing this book out. I read it a couple weeks ago and have been on a tear reading articles online and streaming PBS EON episodes, slowly catching up on the current state of knowledge on those times.
I'm left thinking that there were a whole lot of exceptional circumstances that led to the emergence of humans, which gives me pause about intelligent life arising elsewhere in the universe. Deep down I still think the universe is swarming with intelligent species. But on a more intellectual level I need to give my exuberance ia reality check.
Oh, and I now have a new favorite dinosaur: the tesseractyl.
I'm left thinking that there were a whole lot of exceptional circumstances that led to the emergence of humans, which gives me pause about intelligent life arising elsewhere in the universe. Deep down I still think the universe is swarming with intelligent species. But on a more intellectual level I need to give my exuberance ia reality check.
Oh, and I now have a new favorite dinosaur: the tesseractyl.