<ul><li>A new model suggests that intelligent life may be much more likely than previously thought.</li><li>The model challenges the assumption that human intelligence is an improbable outcome of evolution.</li><li>The researchers propose that human life emerged when the planetary conditions were right, rather than being a rare accident.</li><li>The research has significant implications for our understanding of the history of life on Earth and the likelihood of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.</li></ul>

'Perhaps it's only a matter of time': Intelligent life may be much more likely than first thought, new model suggests

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