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We react curiously to light: Our eyes see in 380-700 nm range. Our skin is sensitive to 700nm . Radio waves are transparent to humans while UVplay a role cancer, vitamin D, etc.
Is this a local property of life on earth because we evolved under solar radiation or is it more universal? In other words, if there is life on a different planet where the spectrum is different, could life be seeing in infrared and getting cancer from light in visible spectrum?
What else is determined strictly by physics and what is evolutionary. For example, will ionizing radiation will be damaging to life universally?
What else is possible?
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