From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 09:06:54 PDT
The latest Scientific American has an online article
stating that there may not be many civilizations in the
galaxy based on humanity's examples of various
societies over the centuries:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000800AC-8550-1D2B-97CA809EC588EEDF&catID=2
A quote from the article:
"We evolved in small hunter-gatherer communities of 100 to 200 individuals;
it may be that our species, and perhaps extraterrestrial species as well (assuming
evolution operates in a like manner elsewhere), is simply not well equipped to
survive for long periods in large populations."
Larry
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