Maybe this isn't the right board for this, but this has been a question I can't get answered. So from what I understand; Human ancestors were primarily nomadic herbivores. The Ice Age came and forced them to adapt, giving them intelligence. Then the Ice Age ended and they started farming and so on. My question is; Why do we think that life on other planets would have required complex thought in the first place? It seems to work fine for all of the other animals so why do we think something as rare as us pops up all around?
It's not impossible to become intelligent obviously, but the odds seem too slim to ever see intelligent life.
This seems like a much more plausible apex predator generally
>>1424116
"Intelligence" itself, could be an evolutionary dead end.
>>1424116
if it came about on all the planets that we know that have life, than sapience happened on all planets with life 100% of the time
We have too small of a sample so al we can do is theorize and know that their are multiple solutions to a problem
