Did you know? Time since earliest wheeled vehicles (4,000 y) is 20 x Time since the first passenger steam railway service (199 y)
Time since the end of the Permian geologic period (252 million y)
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Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
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Click here for Podcast: Andrew Elliott interviewed for New Books Network.