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Time since the start of the last glacial period (Ice Age)

Time since the start of the last glacial period (Ice Age) (110,000 y)

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Time since the start of the last glacial period (Ice Age) (110,000 y)

  • is 1/5000 of Time since the end of the Precambrian supereon, explosion of life forms (541 million y)...more
  • is 1/4000 of Time since the end of the Ordovician geologic period (444 million y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Time since the emergence of earliest humans (2.8 million y)...more
  • is 4 x Time since first domestication of dogs (27,000 y)...more
  • is 20 x Time since first domestication of horses (5,500 y)...more
  • is 200 x Time since the birth of Albrecht Durer (551 y)...more
  • is 200 x Time since the birth of Copernicus (548 y)...more
  • is 200 x Time since the Caxton's first edition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (546 y)...more
  • is 1000 x Time since the birth of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (112 y)...more
  • is 1000 x Time since the birth of Turing (110 y)...more
  • is 1000 x Time since the first fixed wing scheduled air service (108 y)...more

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