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    THE BBC SCIENCE FOCUS DRAW AN ALIEN COMPETITION JUDGED BY DARA Ó BRIAIN

    Nov 26, 2020 3 minutes
    by DR ARIK KERSHENBAUM

    Lessons from life on Earth

    lthough the Universe is full of unexpected surprises – planets with seas of petrol, worlds with diamonds raining from the sky – life isn’t completely unbounded. Life follows rules. If you know what those rules are, you’re going to know something about what aliens are like. The most important rule is that life arises by natural selection. Life adapts to its environment. Complex aliens will have evolved from simple aliens, to solve the problems on their planet. Problems like finding

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