{"id":15263,"date":"2015-07-06T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15263"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:01:55","slug":"evolutionary-biologist-suggests-aliens-look-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/evolutionary-biologist-suggests-aliens-look-like-us","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Biologist Suggests Aliens Look Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the reputable Australian astro-enthusiast journal, SkyNews, a leading biologist says that it is surprising we have not already discovered extra-terrestrials that look like us \u2014 given the growing number of Earth-like planets now discovered by astronomers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/planet_moon-300x186.jpg\"><\/a>Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary biologist suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/culture\/offbeat\/2015\/07\/02\/expert---there-must-be-aliens-who-resemble-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">aliens resembling humans must have evolved on other planets<\/a>. He bases the claim on evidence that different species will independently develop similar features which means that life similar to that on Earth would also develop on equivalent planets.<\/p>\n<p>The theory, known as convergence, says evolution is a predictable process which follows a rigid set of rules. Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/culture\/offbeat\/2015\/07\/02\/expert---there-must-be-aliens-who-resemble-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Skynews<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>__________<br \/>\n<sub><em>Philip Raymond is Co-Chair of The Cryptocurrency Standards<br \/> Association [crypsa.org] and chief editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/AWildDuck.com\">AWildDuck.com<\/a><\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the reputable Australian astro-enthusiast journal, SkyNews, a leading biologist says that it is surprising we have not already discovered extra-terrestrials that look like us \u2014 given the growing number of Earth-like planets now discovered by astronomers. Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary biologist suggests that aliens resembling humans must have evolved on other planets. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1545,33,385,1588,8],"tags":[1988,2155,1986,1987],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-astronomy","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-first-contact","category-space","tag-aliens","tag-evolution","tag-simon-conway-morris","tag-skynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46363,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions\/46363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}