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Human Evolution From An Alien's Perspective - Nick Longrich, PhD
Dr. Nick Longrich, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, joins Andrew Heacock on Lucid Interval to discuss why humanity is a planetary outlier, the evolutionary triggers behind human intelligence, and what that tells us about the likelihood of extraterrestrial life.
From the origins of ranged weapons and the extinction of megafauna to the Fermi Paradox, Rare Earth hypothesis, AI consciousness, and hard sci-fi, this wide-ranging conversation bridges deep evolutionary history with speculative cosmology.
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