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The Inevitability of Intelligent Life?

REVIEWED BY NATHAN H. LENTS

Simon & Schuster. 2018. 304 pp. $26. ISBN-13: 978-1476790268

Basic Books. June 2018. 352 pp. $32. ISBN-13: 978-1541617599

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