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The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time.

At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail.

Infographic by Katie Scott. #science #history

DEEP TIME: If the timeline of Earth were mapped onto the human arm, it would begin around the shoulder where the earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Animals originated within the palm, but the myriad forms alive today exploded onto the scene around the first knuckle, in the Cambrian period. Blocks along the fingers represent the periods that followed, such as the Jurassic (dinosaurs) and the Cenozoic. Humans evolved at a microscopic slice at the tip of a fingernail. Infographic by Katie Scott from original article in Nautilus.
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dehuszar
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this was the first thing that popped in my head.
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And in about 200 million years, any trace of humanity will be nearly impossible to find…

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Attached: 1 image “If we think in terms of those ancient civilisations, it will only be a few millennia before our city would firstly be overcome by vegetation and then would be buried by silt and sediment.” — https://www.thenakedscientists.
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There have been so many extinction events that nobody ever will now when we are gone…
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that's why we don't have alien visitors. It's just freaking hard to catch the right moment when there's someone to talk to.
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and yet we are the most awesome thing in the universe! hyperbolicious!
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For those who are interested, the original source of this infographic seems to be here: nautil.us/the-greatest-animal-…

The Greatest Animal War - Nautilus

Competition in Cambrian seas helped cause an explosion in diversity.
Brooke Borel (Nautilus)

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