Complex life may owe its existence to a rare evolutionary accident: the origin of eukaryotic cells. This single event combined two primitive cells into one, enabling a surge in energy production and genetic complexity. Without it, life on Earth might have remained microbial. Intelligent life could be exceedingly rare across the universe if such a leap is uncommon.
- algorithmic phase shift evolution
- cellular computation complexity
- complex life cosmic fluke
- cosmic rarity of complex life
- emergence of complex life Earth
- eukaryogenesis rare event
- evolutionary breakthrough mitochondria
- great filter eukaryotic cell
- intelligent life evolution barriers
- intelligent life in the universe
- microbial plateau pre-eukaryotes
- non-coding DNA gene regulation
- origin of intelligence in biology
- origin of mitochondria evolution
- oxygenation snowball Earth survival
- PBS Eons eukaryogenesis video
- pbs space time
- prokaryotic genome bottleneck
- rare evolution of eukaryotes
- rare leap to multicellularity
- symbiotic cell merger life
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