Skull and Bones
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Dinosaurs existed for hundreds of millions of year ago before humans, even the time gap between Stegosaurus (156 million years ago) and T-Rex (66 million years ago) is more than T-Rex and Humans. Yet, there hasn't been any considerable development of intelligence among them.
Now, if you consider a planet started harboring life millions of years ago, it becomes a matter of chance that the organism evolved as much as to gain an intelligence to harbor a civilization. Another factor comes into play is, how many times these life forms faced mass extinction, as for earth, life forms have faced mass extinctions about 4 times, the 5th one is going on now. And even if they have a civilization, it must have a tripping point, when the civilization is on the brink of it's self extinction. The height of cold wars was one such moment for us. As every organism evolves in a way to have access to a large share of natural resources. For example, a small mutation caused trees to get higher for more natural sunlight, killing off all the shrubs failed to get into the competition. The same struggle for natural resources becomes violence in much evolved organism.
Now, from the view point of evolution, evolution is a process in which any species gets an advantage to survive and get access to more natural resources in a changing environment. The intelligence as we speak of is an attribute of evolution. Now consider a planet which has stagnant environment, the pace of evolution will dwindle too, considering the fact that the organisms are already well adapted to sustain life in that environment. For example, if you look into the living fossils living in deep seas, they haven't evolved at all over a course of 50-60 million years, as the environment they lived in was stagnant over the course of time.
Thank You for reading through this long boring view points.