Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens.
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The presenter varies the number of difficult evolutionary steps and the maximum lifetime of a habitable planet in a model of civilizations’ arrival times. Humanity’s computed rank depends on those choices as well as the observed age of the universe.
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the number of hard steps, which is 6maximum planet lifetime: 10 billion years