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Monday, October 25, 2010

Splash du Jour: Monday

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BC, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.
-- Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution is True --


Have a great Monday!
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3 Comments:

Blogger Trish said...

Wow, that's so cool! I love when things are condensed like this - amazing insight. Have you seen the one about the the world being condensed into a village of 100 people? It breaks down the world's population in the same way.

Very enlightening!

25/10/10 10:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very cool.
And I'd be curious to see the one Trish mentions, regarding the world population.
Interesting...
C.

26/10/10 11:04 AM  
Blogger Alyce said...

That was such an informative book, and I loved the part you quoted.

28/10/10 2:41 AM  

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