The last one million years shown here represents only one five-thousandth (0.002%) of the history of the earth as shown on the previous time-line. Humans? They don't appear until 100,000 years ago. All of mankind's recorded history (the last 5000 years or so) represents only one millionth (0.00001%) of earth's existence. Scroll to the right, and follow the story of the last five-thousandth of earth's history ... |
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