Hi Metric,
When I read your post, it reminded me of a book I read long ago. One of the other things that the book mentioned was that most likely for terrestrial life to evolve, ( along with every other thing that you mentioned ) a planet would need to have a moon roughly the size of ours, thus making the search for an appropriate planet even more rare.
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The regular rise and fall of sea level creates an unique environment in the Solar System, where life is exposed to both immersion in water and exposure to air in the space of a few hours. This interface between two distinct ecological niches is thought by many to be crucial in evolutionary terms.
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From a web page that I googled the key words, Moon, evolution, life