In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity, such as sexually...

None of these hypotheses can account for the high angular momentum of the Earth–Moon system. The prevailing theory is that the Earth–Moon system formed...

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reasons) humans see no evidence. The following are some of the facts and hypotheses that together serve to highlight the apparent contradiction: There are...

full of related hypotheses. For instance, Ferguson also asserted that the Sun was 30 miles in diameter and 3,000 miles away from Earth. He also disputed...

years: that early snowball Earths did not so much affect the evolution of life on Earth as result from it. In fact the two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive...

findings from poets, philosophers, historians, etc. In fact, many of the hypotheses are derived from the Egyptians, including Shepseskaf-ankh, a physician...

According to Frank and Schmidt, since fossilization is relatively rare and little of Earth's exposed surface is from before the Quaternary time period (~2...

that have existed on Earth, only one has become intelligent and from this, infer a tiny value for fi. Likewise, the Rare Earth hypothesis, notwithstanding...

him to estimate that Earth was about 75,000 years old. Other naturalists used these hypotheses to construct a history of Earth, though their timelines...