Earth has stayed habitable for billions of years – exactly how lucky did we get?

xtock / shutterstock Toby Tyrrell, University of Southampton It took evolution 3 or 4 billion years to produce Homo sapiens. If the climate had completely failed just once in that time then evolution would have come to a crashing halt and we would not be here now. So to understand how we came to exist … Continue reading Earth has stayed habitable for billions of years – exactly how lucky did we get?