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On the contrary that would make the possibility that the great filter is the appearance of a cell very unlikely.

That leaves these possible obvious filters: single cell to multicellular life or planetary resources exhaustion.



The development of multicellular life is unlikely to be the great filter. According to Wikipedia, "Multicellularity has evolved independently at least 25 times in eukaryotes". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism#Occurre...

Evolution of eukaryotes from prokaryotes is a more plausible bottleneck. (Disclaimer: I am not an expert on any of this.)




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