timtyler comments on Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us". - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 26 January 2010 08:56:22PM *  0 points [-]
Comment author: Zachary_Kurtz 27 January 2010 03:41:37PM 1 point [-]

I take your point, but I wonder how many of these examples would reveal evidence ancient divergence if further genetic testing were done.

In any case, what's the average time line of the common ancestor between any two of these examples? I'm guessing on the order of hundreds of millions of years?

When you draw the timeline back farther to the origin of life itself (3.5 billion years) the corresponding likelihood that evolution takes produces something similar to the present goes down.

Although if origin of life on earth is through seeding, perhaps the OP could be more likely