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All About Us - - Humanity begins...
Did you know mankind owes its existance to climate change? That's right! About 15 million years ago, the Earth started to get much drier and cooler. The great tropical and subtropical forest that spanned across Europe and Asia and South into Africa dried up. Many ape species went extinct. A few continued the old ways in shruken forest preserves in a few places, but a tiny few had to learn to survive on the ground as well as the trees. From this tiny branch, sprang humanity.
The Human Story
Where do we begin? At the Big Bang, approximately 13.5 BILLION years ago? Whne the Solar System formed, 4.5 BILLION years ago? When the Earth cooled from a molten rock ball and rain filled the low areas with seas, 4 BILLION years ago? When Life first began, 3.5 BILLION years ago? How about when multicellular life started, in the Cambrian Explosion, 400 MILLION years ago? THere are so many places to start from. Each one of the above would be a valid time to begin. But we'll go much further down the timeline. Starting in the middle of the Miocene, a period of time on Earth that saw the rise and fall of the Great Apes and our meager beginning as hominids...