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Michael Shermer: What Aliens Can Tell Us About Evolution
By Michael Shermer | January 17th 2009 10:04 AM | 51 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
Imagining aliens helps us think about evolution

If we ever do make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, what will it look like?  Hollywood has had no shortage of examples for films and television shows that feature aliens, but they are almost  always bipedal primates who speak English with a funny accent.  This  depiction is more the result of wardrobe budget constraints and the  flexibility of actors than it is the imagination of writers.