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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
Most intelligent life throughout the universe is Bipedal. It is the most convenient form. There are many piles of blob also, but they are not intelligent life. Look at our planet. Just about every kind of possible weird creature exists that can exist. And actually, there are many hominid races throughout our own galaxy, some even have a striking resemblance to humans...
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mmm I dunno man... what I said above wasnt pulled out of my ass... It was from one of Hubert Reeve's astrophysical classes...I watched them all!
(if you havent read Hubert Reeves works and are interested in astrophysical, you REALLY should check'em out!)
life could evolve MUCH differently on another planet in different conditions...
Granted, intelligence, on earth usually goes along with a bipedal form, mostly because it's relative on the size of the brain... being on your hind legs leaves more place for the brain to grow, that's why we started evolving much faster after we started walking on 2 legs instead of 4...the head slowly drifted from: tied to the vertebral colubm (like small monkeys, cats, etc), to the position that it has now: standing on TOP of the column, which leaves a lot of place for the brain to grow....sure, that works on earth.... could be much different on another planet, under different conditions