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		weavejester on Oct 21, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why complex life probably evolved only once They are making the claim that 'complex life only happened once'. They're saying that on Earth, complex life only happened once: "It suggests that complex alien life-forms could only evolve if an event that happened just once in Earth's history was repeated somewhere else."

eof on Oct 21, 2010 [–]

aye ye ye. Yeah I was definitely reading that wrong. That's a helluva claim! I guess I am out of my league to say anything about it though.

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