Our Heavenly Earth 1

Our planet, as we know, has a "complete" Periodic Table of the chemical elements. In particular, it has enough carbon for life as we know it to have evolved, but not enough for a runaway greenhouse effect.

Putting all these together, Earth has provided a rare evolutionary pathway for complex plants and animals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

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