Reply to Root-Bernstein: Increasing complexity allows for the pervasiveness of low-complexity entities and is not anthropocentric

Affiliations

• ¹ Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015.
• ² NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Sagan Fellow, NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218.
• ³ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
• ⁴ Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.
• ⁵ Department of Chemistry, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059.
• ⁶ Blue Marble Space Institute for Science, Seattle, WA 98104.
• ⁷ Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
• ⁸ Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.