Is There Evidence That Life Is Difficult to Evolve?

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"I don't think it's actually fair in any ways to think of them as separate for these kinds of questions," he says. "One successful development of civilization could easily crowd out all other possibilities." We have an enormous impact on the ecology of what goes on in the oceans, and that was still something the human being had a big impact before we started dumping trash into the biosphere.

Welcome to the February 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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