Age of earliest mammoth fossils

Age of earliest mammoth fossils (4.8 million y)

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If Age of earliest mammoth fossils (4.8 million y) was a standard unit ...

  • Time since the end of the Cambrian geologic period (485 million y)...more would be 100 x Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the emergence of earliest insects (480 million y)...more would be 100 x Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the birth of Aristotle (2,400 y)...more would be 1/2000 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the birth of Euclid (2,384 y)...more would be 1/2000 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the birth of Alexander the Great (2,379 y)...more would be 1/2000 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since start of building of the Colosseum (1,950 y)...more would be 1/2500 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the peak of Roman Empire (1,900 y)...more would be 1/2500 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the birth of al-Kindi (1,220 y)...more would be 1/4000 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the birth of Omar Khayyam (976 y)...more would be 1/5000 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils
  • Time since the publication of Copernicus's sun-centred model of the solar system (481 y)...more would be 1/10000 of Age of earliest mammoth fossils

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