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Two scientists in Cambridge: there may be other "humans" in the universe

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April 4 2022
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Imagine a future in which humanity will be able to travel to other Earth-like planets… and perhaps discover other "humans". Or at least humanoids.

Based on his research, a Cambridge University astrobiologist thinks this perspective is more possible than he previously thought. In an interview given to the BBC last month Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary paleobiologist at Cambridge University's Department of Earth Sciences, says "with reasonable confidence" that human-like evolution certainly occurred elsewhere in the universe.

Humanoids in the universe
Simon Conway Morris

Convergent evolution

The idea behind Morris's studies is that of "convergent evolution". According to this principle, the random effects of evolution gradually mediate so that in a given environment it converges creating similar creatures. An example? The flight. Morris notes how this evolved independently on Earth on at least four occasions: in birds, bats, insects, and pterosaurs.

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A way like any other to say that on other planets not very different from Earth there could be humanoids more or less similar to us, with one large head, two upper and two lower limbs. The famous little green (or gray) men, or the many "humanoid" species seen in Star Trek? Maybe none of this, but nothing dissimilar either.

Humanoids in the Universe, a recurring theme

Morris is not alone in thinking that extraterrestrial life can also evolve by producing humanoid beings elsewhere in the universe. Even the biologist Arik Kershenbaum, also in Cambridge, has published an entire book on the subject.

"Since evolution is the explanatory mechanism of life on Earth," Kershenbaum said to Quanta magazine this year, “the principles we find on Earth are applicable to the rest of the universe”.

Humanoids
Arik Kershenbaum

Although we tend to imagine species extraterrestrials who do not share human cultural interests such as philosophy and literature, Kershenbaum argues that even any advanced extraterrestrial life forms would not already have emerged as sophisticated technical entities. They would anyway "Evolved from a pre-technological species", with all the building blocks that serve a social purpose, such as links between groups or transmissions of ideas.

In other words? We may encounter humanoids who tell each other stories, or songs, or whatever, as human civilization does, with similar social purposes.

If the ideas of Kershenbaum and Morris on evolution were correct, humanity could one day explore the cosmos and come across other species with which to relate and communicate in an almost "familiar" way.

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