Most of us know that at some point in our evolutionary history around 600 million years ago, single-celled organisms evolved into more complex multicellular life.
But knowing that happened and actually seeing it happen in real-time in front of you is an entirely different matter altogether.

And that's exactly what researchers from the George Institute of Technology and University of Montana have witnessed - and captured in the breathtaking, time-lapse footage below.
The evolution took just 50 weeks, and was triggered by the introduction of a simple predator.

The_Piper wrote:...

Personally, I'm in the camp of humans not having enough information to even posit a paradox yet.

How Much SETI Has Been Done? Finding Needles in the n-Dimensional Cosmic Haystack

Jason T. Wright, Shubham Kanodia, Emily G. Lubar

(Submitted on 19 Sep 2018 (v1), last revised 21 Nov 2018 (this version, v2))

Many articulations of the Fermi Paradox have as a premise, implicitly or explicitly, that humanity has searched for signs of extraterrestrial radio transmissions and concluded that there are few or no obvious ones to be found. Tarter et al. (2010) and others have argued strongly to the contrary: bright and obvious radio beacons might be quite common in the sky, but we would not know it yet because our search completeness to date is so low, akin to having searched a drinking glass's worth of seawater for evidence of fish in all of Earth's oceans. ...

newolder wrote:

The_Piper wrote:...

Personally, I'm in the camp of humans not having enough information to even posit a paradox yet.

You are not alone. Our searches have only begun...

How Much SETI Has Been Done? Finding Needles in the n-Dimensional Cosmic Haystack

Jason T. Wright, Shubham Kanodia, Emily G. Lubar

(Submitted on 19 Sep 2018 (v1), last revised 21 Nov 2018 (this version, v2))

Many articulations of the Fermi Paradox have as a premise, implicitly or explicitly, that humanity has searched for signs of extraterrestrial radio transmissions and concluded that there are few or no obvious ones to be found. Tarter et al. (2010) and others have argued strongly to the contrary: bright and obvious radio beacons might be quite common in the sky, but we would not know it yet because our search completeness to date is so low, akin to having searched a drinking glass's worth of seawater for evidence of fish in all of Earth's oceans. ...

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