{"id":83670,"date":"2018-10-17T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/extraterrestrials-might-look-like-us-says-astrobiologist"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:12:34","slug":"extraterrestrials-might-look-like-us-says-astrobiologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/extraterrestrials-might-look-like-us-says-astrobiologist","title":{"rendered":"Extraterrestrials Might Look Like Us, Says Astrobiologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extraterrestrials-might-look-like-us-says-astrobiologist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe they\u2019re not alien doppelgangers \u2014 mirror images of us.<\/p>\n<p>But extraterrestrial life\u2014should it exist\u2014might look \u201ceerily similar to the life we see on Earth,\u201d says Charles Cockell, professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Cockell\u2019s new book (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Equations-Life-Physics-Shapes-Evolution-dp-1541617592\/dp\/1541617592\/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Equations-Life-Physics-Shapes-Evolution-dp-1541617592\/dp\/1541617592\/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20\"><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Equations-Life-Physics-Shapes-Evolution-dp-1541617592\/dp\/1541617592\/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20&tag=lifeboatfound-20\">The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution<\/em>, Basic Books, 352 pages<\/a>) suggests a \u201cuniversal biology.\u201d Alien adaptations, significantly resembling terrestrial life\u2014from humanoids to hummingbirds\u2014may have emerged on billions of worlds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billretherford\/2018\/10\/17\/extraterrestrials-might-look-like-us-says-astrobiologist\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billretherford\/2018\/10\/17\/extra...biologist\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe they\u2019re not alien doppelgangers \u2014 mirror images of us. But extraterrestrial life\u2014should it exist\u2014might look \u201ceerily similar to the life we see on Earth,\u201d says Charles Cockell, professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Indeed, Cockell\u2019s new book (The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution, Basic Books, 352 pages) suggests [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,385,41,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-evolution","category-information-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83670","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\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83673,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83670\/revisions\/83673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}