Interactive: What Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history would look like in a single year
One of the first supercontinents to form on Earth, Rodinia brings together most of the planet’s landmasses. During its 550 ...
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Earth's 4.54 Billion Years as One Year: Interactive
86,377 years ago: Homo sapiens migrate out of Africa into Eurasia. Thus begins a significant global colonisation by early modern humans. ~77,740 years ago: The first symbolic art. Engraved ochre in ...
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Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals
Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...