• foggy@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It would if people had any tangible idea of how long 3.7 million years is.

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      7 months ago

      Well it’s slightly longer than the genus Homo first appeared, so yeah longer than the lifetime of all human like “animals”.

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      7 months ago

      It’s the length of the combined total working lives of an entire football stadium full of people.