intelligent life

noun

: beings that can learn and understand things
looking for signs of intelligent life on other planets

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The hard steps theory predicts that few if any other civilizations exist throughout the universe, because so many complex events must happen in a particular sequence, rendering the outcome of intelligent life as highly improbable. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025 Researchers from a variety of disciplines, from paleontologists and biologists to astronomers, can work together to learn more about the probability of intelligent life evolving on Earth and elsewhere in the universe. Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025 No evidence has been produced of intelligent life beyond Earth. CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025 The film contends there has been an 80-year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer UFO technology. James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for intelligent life

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