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A few years ago, one of the great figures of contemporary biology, Ernst Mayr, published some reflections on the likelihood of success in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 1 He considered the prospects very low. His reasoning had to do with the adaptive value of what we call "higher intelligence," meaning the particular human form of intellectual organization. Mayr estimated the number of species since the origin of life at about fifty billion, only one of which "achieved the kind of intelligence needed to establish a civilization." It did so very recently, perhaps 100,000 years ago. It is generally assumed that only one small breeding group survived, of which we are all descendants.

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数年前、Ernst Mayr、現代生物学の偉大な人物の 1 つは地球外知性体の検索の成功の可能性にいくつかの反射を公開しました。 1 彼は見通しの非常に低いと見なされます。彼の推論が呼ぶ「高い知性」の特定の人間の形を意味の適応値で行うことでした