This means we don't live in the hypothetical universe with the highest odds of forming intelligent life forms. Or in other words, the value of dark energy density we observe in our universe is not ...

Imagine if the genetic deck had been shuffled slightly differently as some of the earliest life forms began their evolutionary ... What do you think? Is intelligent life inevitable?

And of those world, in turn, from 0% to 100% would develop life forms that we would consider intelligent. The mere existence of intelligent life forms tells us nothing, however, unless they have ...